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Trends in the Field of social support and medical Field

-Cook et al, 2012 introduced the used of a Student Support Card to empower students withdisabilities and health issues to request reasonable adjustments. A study was carried out to

ascertain the effectiveness of the Student Support Card from the user’s perspective in both

institutions.Example :

Condition Adjustment requested on the card

Severe dyslexia

Stamering

In objective – structured clinical examination,

candidate instructions to be read aloud to thestudent.

Reader be aware and be patient

Example of a case: Rob has speech impediment which is usually not noticeablebut which causeshim problems when he’s nervous.He is very worried ended about the structured clinical

examination.Rob and the dean of the students agreed the wording on his card: “Rob has a speech

Impediment which means he might not answer your questions as you expect .Please be patient

and do not hurry him to finish his sentences .Signed by the student and the Dean.”

Dessemontet et al. focused on the Effects of inclusion on the academic achievement andadaptive behaviour of children with intellectual disabilities. A comparative study with anexperimental group of 34 children with ID fully included in general education classrooms with

support, and a control group of 34 comparable children in special schools has been conducted.

The progress accomplished by these two groups in their academic achievement and adaptive behavior has been compared over two school years and as a result: Included children made

slightly more progress in literacy skills than children attending special schools. No differences

were found between the progress of the two groups in mathematics and adaptive behavior.

Trends as results of studies with regard the use of Technology

According to the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB act), students with additional learning needs

typically needs support from teachers,professionals .However today, in the 21st century students

are more faced to a more diverse learning , and that is with the aid of this technologies.

A study was conducted by Kim et al in the year 2006,entiltled Improving the ReadingComprehension of Middle School Students With Disabilities Through Computer-Assisted.



This study investigated the effects of computer-assisted comprehension practice using a

researcher-developed computer program, Computer-Assisted Collaborative Strategic Reading

(CACSR), with students who had disabilities. Two reading/language arts teachers and their 34students with disabilitiesparticipated. Students in the intervention group received the

CACSR intervention, which consisted of 50-min instructional sessionstwice per week over 10 to

12 weeks. The results revealed astatistically significant difference between intervention andcomparison groups’ reading comprehension ability as measured by a researcher-developed, proximal measure (i.e., finding main ideas and question generation) and a distal, standardized

measure (i.e.,Woodcock Reading Mastery Test, Passage Comprehension). Effect sizes for all

dependent measures favored the CACSR group. Furthermore,a majority of students expressed positive overall per positive overall perspectives of the CACSR intervention and believed that

their reading had improved. However a study conducted by K. Bunning et al in the year 2010,

they emphasized on the role of human mediation in the use of the Information and

Communication technology (ICT) in the classroom setting.A video ethnography was used tomonitor the interaction of the students, they found out that there was a need for teachers to do

their part as educators. Statistical analysis revealed significant differences between teacher and

student communication on all the measures. Teachers occupied significantly more turns thanstudents. There were relatively few opportunities for the student to make a contribution to the

interaction process with requests from teachers dominating the dialogues. The teachers

communicated through speech mainly, with some gestural support towards aspects of the

computer-based activity. This small scale study is illustrative of characteristics found in teacher-talk in other studies of classroom discourse.

Engagement in computer-based activities appears to be inseparable from the communication

context determined by the type of linguistic support given by the teacher.

Trends for better Comprehension

-use of Story Grammar and Story Map to enhance Comprehension.

- The visual organizing aspect of the story map presentation provides students with a

blueprint to mentally store and retrieve important story information. Use of the visual

graphic is especially helpful for students with LD who often have processing problems.(STETTER and HUGHES(2010) ,Using Story Grammar to Assist Students

with Learning Disabilities and Reading Difficulties Improve their Comprehension,

EDUCATION AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN Vol. 33, No. 1)

Insights: Learning disability could be one of the reason for a low performance in the school,

either in the field of computation, reading, speaking ,and comprehension. A lot of this conditions

are often seemed not to be recognize among the children since some of these children wouldnever try to speak up if they feel something wrong with them. They maybe misunderstood by the

parents or the teachers and would label or put the notion of the child as “bubo” which is a very

judgmental word yet without knowing that their child has his or her own struggles towards

learning. The movie entitled Every Child is Special was able to depict this fact. The role of theteacher then becomes very essential in helping such conditions to be diagnosed immediately in

order to help these students be addressed with their learning needs and guiding them with those

different teaching strategies.

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