Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g6P1L7X08988; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:21:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:21:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <73.2306adba.2a70abf4@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:4022] Re: More LD questions X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1476 Lines: 33 Dear Friends, I hope you can help me on this. I am trying to understand the nature of learning disabilities you might come across in your classrooms. (I am not talking about learning difficulties.) These would be patterns of reading problems--some people call them more explicitly "miscues," meaning systematic reading errors. When you come across these reading disabilities, how do you remediate them? Do you do diagnosis--what does this tell you? I realize this is a gigantic topic, I hope to narrow it down to your explicit experience. I KNOW that experienced teachers notice such miscue patterns and also develop teaching responses which seem to work--seat-of the-pants teaching. I used to be a schoolteacher, the oldest kids I taught were (very troubled) adolescents, often under court mandate, and that was in the mid-nineties. We used a variety of standardized tests to describe performance in an array of reading practices. It was a very mix'n' match approach, and I am working to develop a better, clearer idea of what actual teachers see in their classes, what brain research is saying about these patterns, and how to remediate them. I love my work, but without input from the field I can only guess at what you as teachers see everyday, and where I can focus my work. I recall a fairly spirited discussion on this topic last fall (?) but from a slightly different angle. I welcome any input on this topic. Thank you very much. Andrea
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