1. How do we identify children with learning disabilities?

4. Interindividual difference is a substantial difference among people along key dimensions of development. Areas of inter-individual differences include academic aptitude, academic performance, language development, and psychosocial development.

7. You lose concentration in class during a lecture. Suddenly you hear a significant word and return your focus to the lecture. You should be able to remember what was said just before the key word since it is in your sensory register.

9. Studies on memory and learning show that short term memory problems can be a factor in a person's ability to learn new things. Short term memory is usually the starting place for processing information and events into out long term memory storage. If a person has issues utilizing short term memory then they will often have problems with learning facts, names, figures, etc.

11. Long –term memory stores information that we have made our own to draw on for future use.

12. Schemas are mental models of the world. Information in our long-term memory is stored in interrelated networks of these schemas. Related schemas are linked together and information that activates one schema also activates others that are closely linked. This is how we recall relevant knowledge when similar information is presented. These schemas guide us by diverting our attention to relevant information and allow us to disregard what is not important.

14. MORAL DILEMMA What are your personal beliefs about this issue, and how will your beliefs affect your professional decisions? I feel that a student with a learning disability should be credited the appropriate necessities in order for that student to learn to the best his/her ability. I don’t think that what I believe will effect my professional decisions because that is the professional thing to do . If a student in your class has a learning disability then he/she should receive extra help. If the students have a problem with that then they simply need an explanation as to why the student receives extra attention. Our job as teachers is to do all that we can to help a student learn. How I will handle the situation: It is important as a teacher to explain to the students why Kevin is given these accommodations. The other students in the class just think that Kevin is being rewarded these accommodations, but after explaining to the children why he is given these special the rights, students will come to an understanding. The teacher needs to tell the students that Kevin has a learning disability, but stress that Kevin is no different then anyone else, he just needs a little more time then others. What does “fair” mean in the educational context for individuals with special learning needs? The word “fair” along with an individual with special learning needs, does no go together in my opinion. If a student has a learning disability then that student should get all the help and extra time needed to accomplish their learning goals. I feel as teachers we are responsible for helping students with special needs in everyway that we can. Our goal is for the student to learn the necessary material and if that means that the student needs extra time n a test because he/she learning disability then it should be given to them. Students with special learning needs deserves and necessary accommodations if that means the student will learn.