Special Education: Learning Disabilities
What specific characteristics of a learning disability, from the federal definition presented in class, did Nathan Van Hoy display?
How did Nathan’s communication and social skills, sensorimotor skills, and memory skills help to mask his learning disability (i.e., his basic decoding skills in reading)?
How can or did teachers use his strengths to help Nathan improve his reading and executive functioning at the same time? describe specific examples of assessment and intervention that helped Nathan.
How might these interventions help Javion today, as an adolescent with LD?