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Compare and Contrast: LD and CD

Consider the characteristics of a student with a learning disability (LD) and a student with a communication disorder (CD). Compare and contrast the following aspects of LD and CD:
Definition of each disability

Learning disability is a neurological condition that interferes with an individual's ability to store, process, or produce information.

Communication disorder an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process and comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal and graphic symbol systems.

Characteristics of each disability

Learning disabilities can affect one's ability to read, write, speak, spell, compute math, reason and also affect an individual's attention, memory, coordination, social skills and emotional maturity.

Communication disorders the speech is distorted when it sounds more like the intended phoneme than another speech sound but is conspicuously wrong.

Evaluation of each disability area

Learning disability: 1. Provide state or local educational agency may take into consideration whether a student has a severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement in oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skills, reading comprehension, mathematical calculation, or mathematical reasoning. 2. Response-to-intervention approach, agency can now use a process to determine if the student responds to scientific research-based intervention.

Communication disorder: 1. Conduct a screening, a referral for evaluation 2. During intervention, after referral for an assessment, the speech language pathologist conducts an assessment by gathering information from sources such as school records, parent, and teacher interviews, hearing and vision screenings, observations, speech samples, language samples, classwork samples, checklists, standardized tests, non-standardized tests, curriculum-based assessments.

Research-based effective instructional strategies, supports, and services.

Learning disabilities effective instructional strategies are differentiated instruction, advance organizers, graphic organizer, UDL and curriculum, and IEP team.

Communication disorders effective instructional strategies, support and services are partnering for special education, SLP use in schools, direct and indirect, technology, planning for UDL, modeling, focused contrast, event casts, open questions and expansion.

What are your experiences with working with a student or individual with a learning disability or communication disorder? Have you found the characteristics discussed in the readings to be accurate? What further suggestions might you have for teaching students with LD?

I have some experience working with children with learning disabilities and communication disorder, the head start enrolls students with disabilities. The characteristics for both are accurate from the experience I have had with students in the classroom. When teaching students with learning disabilities, keep an open mind be willing to work extra one on one if necessary to make sure the student is successful.