FAT City Videos

Visual Perception

• Not seeing what everyone else sees.
• Responds to what he perceives.
• Needs direct instruction

Reading comprehension

• Understanding words, but not meaning of passage.
• or
• Can answer questions about passage without understanding words.
• *Needs direct instruction*

Oral expression

• Dysnomia: word finding problem.
• problem between storage and retrieval
• speaking is cognitive
• need time

Reading and Decoding

• Interpreting doesn't happen because all of the energy went into the decoding of the material.

fairness

• False: Fairness is everyone getting the same thing.
• True: Fairness is everyone getting what they need.

Anxiety

• Afraid of making mistakes or looking stupid.
• Poor self-esteem

processing

• Takes more time
• Might need info given in multiple methods to make sense of it.

risk taking

• Stressful for LD students.
• Concrete thinking - Need direct instruction.