Article Response-Learning from Text

Remediation/Compensation

Reading Dave L.Edyburn’s article on Learning from Text brought up a lot of questions around remediation or compensation.  I was really surprised the statistics that 80% of students with learning disabilities receive services for a reading disability.  I think this number is very high.  I think it depends on the population of the school and the number of students identified.  Unfortunately when there is a high population of need only the severe get services and the other students on the cusp receive very little support.  Or they don’t receive the proper support they need.  Because the numbers are so high students get grouped together so that more students are seen at a time.  It looks good on paper/the schedule but it’s not realistic.  My niece has been diagnosed with dyslexia and because the student need is so high at her school she does not receive support.  She is very lucky because her parents had the finances to have her privately assessed early and they pay for her to see a tutor 3 times a week that is specially trained to work with kids with LDs.  She does not receive support from AT and it doesn’t look like she will unless it comes from her parents. 

“Learning from Text” was a great guideline for implementing remediation and compensation programs.  They had great suggestions and broke everything down so that it was easily understood.