Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

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There are things that you as a writing teacher can do, so that you do not end up on these frustrated and misunderstood students' long lists of impatient instructors. There are ways you can help students compensate for learning differences and there are strategies you can teach them that will help them become more effective readers and writers.

• Introduction
• Guide Focus
• What are Learning Disabilities?
• Role of Formal Assessment
• LD Students in Your Composition Classroom
• LD Students in a Writing Center Tutorial
• Teacher Resources
• An Introduction to Resources for Disabled Students
• Annotated Bibliography
• Relevant Web Sites