Day after day, I walk into a serve and multiple disabilities classroom. I've worked in a number of these settings through out the years. However, not once have I thought about how students with learning disabilities feel in the room in which we co-exist everyday, until now. This video provided me a chance to reflect upon the very students that I help everyday.
One aspect of the video that captured my attention was when all of the teachers were looking at a drawing and couldn't figure it out. I think it turned out to be a cow or something. This caught my eye because it made me think that do all of my handouts look like this for my students? Understanding words on a paper can be far more confusing than interpreting a drawing.
This video provided me a chance to take a look at what I've already done and will do and simplify it to ensure my students can understand it.
I had the same experience Dale! Although I don't work with students with severe and multiple disabilities, I do have students with IEPs and 504 plans in my classes. What really struck me was how the instructor talked about the differences in processing time for a student with disabilities versus gen ed student. Sometimes I feel like when I am going over homework, I just get on a roll and probably end up going over questions way too fast for some students to process. In the long run, this ends up being a lot of content that some students are missing. Like you said, I will definitely take this more into consideration now after watching the video!
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