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Classroom Strategies
Language Disorders
Difficulty understanding/interpreting what one hears or reads
Possible Disabilities
- Learning Disability
- Traumatic Brain Injury
Observable Behavior
- Poor vocabulary
- Difficulty with idiomatic language and double meaning of words, learning meaning of new words
- Very concrete thinker (i.e., literal interpretation of literature, etc.)
- Difficulty with abstractions, generalizations
- Difficulty with following events in a novel, seeing cause and effect
- When talking, difficulty organizing materials, flow of ideas poor or disjointed
- Difficulty with subtleties of language (i.e. humor)
- Written language very poor
- Does better on multiple choice test, poor on essay exams, needs extra time
- Difficulty with classification and categorization
What to do
- Use dictionary constantly; check confusion with another student
- Be careful in selection of courses; preview text before signing up for class
- Try studying with other members of the class
- Do several rough drafts
- Use a pre-reading routine for text reading
- Create concept maps of the material to be learned
- Use word processor with "spell check" software
- Use a tutor to review assignments with you
For additional information please contact the Counselor/Coordinator of Student Accommodations
at 217/234-5259 or email Jordan Hicks at jhicks50392@lakeland.cc.il.us
| 5001 Lake Land Blvd. Mattoon, IL 61938-9366 217-234-LAKE      |