Traditional Methods versus Use of Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion2

Learning Disability2

Types of Learning Disabilities3

Literature Review5

Policy Background7

Traditional Method of Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities9

Teachers and Parents Involvement10

Use of Technology for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities11

Tools of Technology14

Technology is no Panacea17

Advantages of Technology usage for Teaching students with Learning Disabilities18

Disadvantages of Usage of Technology in Teaching Students with Disabilities20

Conclusion21

References23

Traditional Methods versus Use of Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities

Introduction

Learning disabilities is the classification of disabilities in the legislation with the most changes. Learning disabilities are difficulties that influence the learning process for many children, adolescents, and adults, affecting their education and adjustment to society. The National Center for Learning Disabilities defines a learning disability as “a neurological disorder that affects the brain's ability to receive, process, store, and respond to information.” Such a disorder can affect an individual's listening, speaking, reading (dyslexia), writing (dysgraphia), or mathematics (dyscalculia) abilities. Attention and organizational disorders or nonverbal learning disorders (NVLD) affect both cognitive and interpersonal capacities. Students with sensory disabilities have hearing or vision loss and may also have related or unrelated learning or organizational disabilities. All of these disabilities can be co-occurring. Learning disabilities can interfere with a student meeting his or her intellectual and life potential. Learning disabilities result in unexpected academic underachievement. Learning disabilities may impact the acquisition, organization, understanding, retention and/or use of information. Learning disabilities are complex and go beyond the stereotypical perceptions of the disorder as simply reading difficulties, or letter reversals.

This paper is about the traditional methods versus use of technology methods for students with learning disabilities. Start of the paper will address Learning Disability, and literature review and policy background. Further, main them of the paper will discussed which will include comparison of technology usage for the students having Learning Disabilities with the traditional methods of teaching along with discussing teachers and parents involvement in the issue and tools of technology. In last, it will include advantages and disadvantages of using technology ofr teaching students with learning disabilities.

Discussion

Learning Disability

Learning disabilities can interfere with a student meeting his or her intellectual and life potential. Learning disabilities result in unexpected academic underachievement. Learning disabilities may impact the acquisition, organization, understanding, retention and/or use of information. Learning disabilities are complex and go beyond the stereotypical perceptions of the disorder as simply reading difficulties, or letter reversals. They vary considerably, both in terms of the functions they impact and the severity of the impact experienced. The appropriate accommodations depend upon the individual's strengths as well as his/her specific difficulties. Frequently, learning disabilities are not detected before children start school. Many students with learning disabilities display no signs of difficulty, except when they attempt the specific academic tasks that challenge their particular area of cognitive processing difficulty. Unlike many other disabilities, identifying a learning disability poses some particular challenges since processing disorders are assessed through inference based on student responses. It might not be obvious that a student's learning difficulties are due to a learning ...