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Special Education

Notes (iv) .................. children are usually destructible and hyperactive.
(a) Backward (b) Learning disabled
(c) Mentally retarted (d) Orthopaedic

18.2 Educational Provisions
The educational provisions for learning disabled children primarily consists of three types:
(1) Day school: where the learning disabled children receive specialised schooling using special
teachers essentially on the same curriculum but with greater care and pace. This is a segregated
setting.
(2) Special class in a Regular School: where LD children are given special instruction in a self
contained classroom by special teacher as well as regular classroom teacher do assist in teaching
subject matters. These children receive instruction on academic in these classes but for social
activities etc. They are with general students.
(3) Their number is large, and they do not pose organic problems or problems of low IQ. these
children are integrated in the regular classroom with resources room facilities (mainstreaming/
integration).

What is spatial training?

18.3 Teaching Strategies for LD Children

The following teaching strategies are used for LD children:
1. Asal, 2. Phonices, 3. Linguistic, 4. Language Experiences. 5. Programmed Instruction. 6. Multisensory,
and 7. Rebus picture.
The details are given in the following paras :
1. Asal Teaching
It has the following advantages and limitations details with LD children :
Advantage: (1) Comprehensive. (2) Controlled vocabulary. (3) Sequential introduction of skills.
(4) Reinforcement of skills. (5) Diagnostic and evaluative material usually provided.
Limitations: (1) Limited flexibility in teaching style. (2) Individualized instruction not
encouraged. (3) Lack of depth of material necessary for skill mastery. (4) Lack of provision for
processing deficits. (5) No choice of analytic or synthetic phonics instruction. (6) Subjects to
repetition of the same stories and methods resulting from failure.
2. Phonics Teaching
It has the following advantages and limitations details with LD clildren :
Advantage: Effective decoding techniques for pupils with good auditory abilities.
Limitations: (1) Not effective for pupils with auditory deficits. (2) May be taught in isolation.
(3) Comprehension neglected. (4) Invariance in English language may cause confusion.
3. Linguistics Teaching
It has the following advantages and limitations details with LD cliildren :
Advantage: (1) Control for irregular spelling in initial stages. (2) Gradual introduction of phones.
(3) Extensive repetition.
Limitations: (1) Little emphasis on comprehension in initial stages. (2) Vocabulary controlled
for regular elements and does not utilize spoken language of pupil.

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