Helping Teachers Understand the Needs of Learning Disabled Children

Abstract

This article describes a simulated reading activity which LD teachers can use to help classroom teachers experience the same anxieties, frustrations, and failure that learning disabled children experience every day under group norm instruction. This activity helps teachers develop insight into children's attitudes toward the learning task, their fellow students, the teacher, and the instructional methods and materials which are used. The activity also enables an awareness of differences In learning styles among participants.