TEACHING STRATEGIES AND MANAGEMENT IN LEARNING DISABILITIES

Teaching Strategies for Learning Disabilities

In giving students their appropriate learning strategies based on their kind of learning disabilities
or fulfilling what their special needs are is the way of entering the greatest challenges of you
being an efficient professional educator. It is needed to have modifications and accommodations
for others. Before giving them, some teaching strategies, be mindful on what characteristics they
have as part of your considering which learning strategies are they supposed to learn.
Disabled students doesn't mean unable to learn. Disabled students just in need of different
instructions for their distinctive learning disabilities. To find out, give your students various
teaching strategies to meet their needs.
There are lot of Teaching Strategies we can use to; these are the followings:

ACADEMIC AND ORGANIZATIONS

 Give them quality feedback as a communication.
 Visually and verbally present information.
 Not just give them assignments in written form but also in oral form.
 Paste some label to equipment, materials and tools being used for them to distinguish it
clearly.
 Provide teach memory strategies.
 Allow them to use planner jot down assignments and due dates.
 Use graphic organizers.
 Use pictures to clearly apply the instructions.

READING
 Should have books in large prints and big spaces between lines.
 Allow them to use visual and auditory senses when reading.
 Share a story.
 Give them reasons why reading is necessary to do.
 Point out every part of the text.
 Give them specific sounds and try to act with them.
 Label materials around the classroom.
 Highlight key points of what they are reading.
 Try them to reread a story they have already read to practice fluency.
 Model and demonstrate how to break short sentences into individual word.
 Point out unfamiliar words and dive deeply into the meaning of it.
 Teach students how books are organized.
WRITING
 Include functions such as spell check, grammar, and copy & paste in a PC for them to
use.
 To educate the writing process, use mnemonic devices (e.g., COPS: Capitalization,
Organization, Punctuation, Spelling).
 To lessen the quantity of writing, provide half-finished outlines or notes.
 Have wide rule paper, graph paper, and pencil grips available.
 Allow students to use abbreviations in writing assignments and have them have a list of
approved abbreviations on hand.
 Allow students to use a laptop or other computer to complete writing assignments.
 Allow the kid to write in either print or cursive.
 Do not deduct points for incorrect spelling on first drafts, in-class tasks, or examinations.
 Teach kids spelling rules, such as the "silent e" rule, in a systematic manner.

MATHEMATICS
 Allow for the scratch of paper and fingers.
 Allow pupils to keep track of how many and which facts they've mastered by creating a
self-chart of their progress.
 Make graph paper available for pupils to use in math problems to help them align
numbers.
 Present activities that use all of the senses — auditory, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic – in
order to learn.
 To teach math facts and to establish steps to a beat, use music and rhythm.
 To differentiate problems, use colored pencils.
 Teach pupils how to comprehend the problem, devise a solution plan, follow out the plan,
and check to see whether the solution is correct.
 Use engaging and motivating items for practice, such as games.

TESTING AND ACCOMODATIONS

 Provide test practice questions that show the exam's structure as well as its substance.
 Look at different types of testing (oral, hands-on demonstration, open book etc.).
 Use a tape recorder or have someone scribe the answers for pupils who have trouble
writing.
 Have a proctor read the test to the student if they have trouble reading.
 Students should be taught how to proofread their work and assessments.
 During tests, allow pupils to use a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a calculator.
 Create a score guide, distribute it to pupils, and show them how to perform at each level.
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOR DISABLED LEARNERS

Let our Disabled Learners to learn in a normal set up by taking notes of these classroom
management.

1. Use smart device platforms as a tool for students especially the one who has autism. Can
browse thousands of images and exercises created in a behavioral analyst.
2. For learners who always needed an own space to work at, setting their desk in by row is a
great way.
3. Post a classroom policy in a place that they could see easily and let them to read it aloud every
day.
4. Give them instructions as simple as you can.
5. Post a clear and colorful visual aid every lesson to test their attention span.
6. Give them a chance to work on a group working activities to practice unity and to belong in a
peer.
7. Learners at least have their short break.
8. Give an effort to know each student their strengths and weaknesses.
9. Eliminate classroom distractions before, during or after working inside.
10. Give advance warning if the daily schedule is going to change.
References

do2learn. (2021). Specific Learning Disability (SLD) Strategies. Retrieved from

https://do2learn.com/disabilities/CharacteristicsAndStrategies/SpecificLearningDisability

_Strategies.html

McClafferty, J. (2018). 11 Classroom Management Strategies for Children with Special Needs.

Retrieved from https://blog.stageslearning.com/blog/11-classroom-management-

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