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Students with Learning Disabilities

Students with learning disabilities may develop academic and behavioral/emotional problems and teachers require training to deal effectively with these students. Schools Attuned (2005) provides a comprehensive training program for educators to help them with these students and it remains unclear how the teachers feel about the program.

Quinn, Rutherford, Leone, Osher, and Poirier (2005) reported that students with learning disabilities have difficulty learning and this inability leads to poor academic achievement as well as behavioral and emotional problems. There is an over representation of students with disabilities in juvenile detention systems. Cognitive deficits lead to negative self-image, emotional/behavioral problems, poor academic achievement, and school failure. These factors place the student at risk for juvenile crime. Educators need to be able to teach problem students (Quinn et al., 2005).

Levine (1999) reported that children who cannot overcome learning difficulties are more likely to under-perform in school and become problem students. These children are also likely to develop low self-esteem and participate in negative behaviors. Scott (2003) noted further that there is a pattern of negative practices that lead to student failure and behavior problems. Interventions must include early influences to change these negative teaching practices. When a teacher is unable to teach students effectively, learning becomes difficult for some students and this leads to frustration and negative behaviors.

Eaton, Gangluff, and Deere, (2004) reported that teaching problem students requires specific training. For example, educators teaching students with learning difficulties must use neurodevelopmental strategies such as learning to listen, not interrupting, and not providing a barrage of information. The teacher must coach instead of lecture students who have difficulty learning. Additional program co...

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