Remedial Programs for LD

Question 1

List the different methods used as special techniques to teach children with special needs:

Answer 1

• Direct Instruction
• Cognitive instruction
• Multisensory Instructional techniques
• Study skill training or meta-cognitive skills
• Social skill training
• Inclusion Strategies
• Peer mediated instruction, computer assisted instruction

Question 2

Direct Instruction:

Answer 2

Highly structures and organised; Analysis of learning problems, Steps with clear goals, Feedback and corrections.

• This is a highly structured and organised teaching strategy which is started after the analysis of learning problems with specific learning tasks.
• It is carried on in steps with clear goals to be achieved at each step.
• Feedback and corrections are used

and are shown to affect children’s participation and performance positively.
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Question 3

Cognitive Instruction:

Answer 3

Together with DI, cognitive instruction is also used. CI emphasises attending, responding, rehearsing, recalling and transferring information.

Question 4

Multisensory instructional strategies:

Answer 4

highlight learning by seeing, hearing, touching and movement.

Question 5

Study skill training or meta-cognitive skills

Answer 5

assist students in learning how to take notes and tests, prepare compositions, and remember to bring necessary materials.

Question 6

Social skill training

Answer 6

Social skill training is used to help children in getting along with peers and adults in various settings and circumstances.

Question 7

Inclusion strategies

Answer 7

Inclusion strategies are the provisions by state and national authorities that students with learning disabilities should be educated with nondisabled students of their age. Additional instructional resources can be used for children with LD while teaching them in a general classroom. Teachers should make effort to adopt such methods as to enhance the understanding and participation of LD children with other children.

Question 8

Other methods

Answer 8

Peer mediated instruction and computer assisted instruction are the other methods used.

Question 9

What is important to adequately implement all these methods?

Answer 9

For all these methods to be adequately implemented, it is extremely important that the classroom teacher and school psychologist should be sensitive to the problems and needs of such children and provide appropriate educational settings to LD