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Essay on How to Help Students Who Can't Read and Write?
The idea is by and large providing essential legal safeguards and access for children who cannot read and write. On the other hand, the current system frequently places procedure on top of consequences, and technical fulfillment on top of student attainment, excellence and results. The system is obsessed by multifaceted system, extreme official procedure and rising administrative stress at all levels—for the child, the parent, the local education organization and the state education bureau. Too frequently, merely meeting the standards for special education turns out to be an end-point—not an entry to additional effectual trainings and strong interference.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's Seventeenth Annual Report to Congress (2000), more than 3.0 million children with reading and writing disabilities received special education services in nation's schools during the 1998-2000 school year. For educators, understanding the special learning needs of a student with a learning disability plays a critical part in designing an appropriate educational program for that student and in providing needed educational and behavioral support. According to the U.S. Department of Education (2000) students with reading and writing disability are 5% of all students in United States.
Students with severe reading-related LD require specific, intensive, and explicit reading instruction individually or in small groups if they are to make significant progress (O'Connor & Wilson, 1995). Older students with reading disabilities also need explicit and systematic instruction in reading, particularly phonological awareness, sound-symbol relationships, morphological awareness, and orthographic awareness. In addition, their instruction in reading is enhanced by experiences that are designed explicitly to foster vocabulary development, background knowledge, the ability to detect and comprehend relationships among verbal concepts, and the ability to actively use strategies to ensure understanding and retention of material................
