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Mar 6, 2020 · Rick Lavoie conducts and energetic look at how it feels to be an individual with a learning disability
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Oct 3, 2021 · The F.A.T. city workshop - Understanding learning disabilities By Richard Lavoie Intro: ( 0:00:01 ) - Definition of Exclusion Experiencing frustration, anxiety & tension: ( 0:03:42 )...
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Aug 29, 2018 · How Difficult Can This Be- The F.A.T City Workshop. 6K Likes. 655,214 Views. 2018 Aug 29. Transcript. Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript.
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May 4, 2019 · For an insight into students with learning disabilities/problems you can't go past the F.A.T. City Workshop. Here is an interview with the convener.
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- Fred Del-Pin
- Introduction
- Experiencing Frustration, Anxiety, and Tension
- Processing
- Risk Taking
- Visual Perception
- Motivation
- Reading Comprehension
- Effect of Perception on Behavior
- Visual Motor Coordination
- Oral Expression
“Give me five children who aren’t functioning in the classroom. Take away the child who is mentally impaired or retarded in some way. Take away the child who has a primary emotional disturbance. Take away the child who’s not had the opportunity to learn, and take away the child who has some modality deficit, who perhaps is deaf or blind. The child ...
“‘The first page, Carol, earth to Carol, come in please…’ Raise your hand if you thought that was funny. Yeah, everybody likes that except Carol. Any time you as a parent or as a teacher decide to use sarcasm with kids, understand that you’ve created a victim. Now that little throwaway line that I threw at Carol, I will forget within five minutes, ...
“The non-LD children are processing an answer. The learning disabled children have to process the question. So, in effect, they have twice the processing load to do than the other students in the class. So even if the class is moving at a normal rate, to the LD child, it seems to be moving at this breakneck speed.” Yes. This happens to me. Yes. Abs...
“Why should I play this game? Because based on what I’ve seen, if I get the answer right, he’s not gonna say anything, and if I get it wrong, he’s gonna embarrass me, so why should I volunteer?” I am a bit different, I am too outspoken and passionate to not take risks. But I absolutely can relate, to a certain extent. I just can’t remember.
Four things that happen when a child is unable to perceive 1. “Look at it again. Look at it harder.” 2. Bribe the child to do it. — “You would expect the doctor to give some kind of medicine. You wouldn’t expect the doctor to try and bribe the child out of his temperature, and yet that’s what we do with kids.” 3. Begin taking things away. 4. Blamin...
“Motivation only enables us to do, to the best of our ability, what we are already capable of doing.” “Was Debbie motivated? Yes. Could she do it? No. Learning disabilities have very little to do with motivation.” “What the LD child needs is a teacher. Not necessarily all kinds of commercial software, what he needs is a teacher to give him these di...
“Comprehension has much more to do with background than it does with vocabulary.” “We cannot assume that because a person every word in the passage, he can understand the passage.” “The first story you understood every word, you couldn’t answer a question; the second story, you didn’t understand anything that it was about, but you can respond to al...
“Many times the LD child will get into trouble and not know what he did wrong. And when he says ‘I don’t know what I did wrong,’ he’s telling the truth.” “I can think of nothing that a kid can write on a piece of paper that gives a teacher the right to tear it up in front of them.” “What the coach didn’t see is you responded to what you perceive, y...
“Visual motor integration is a major problem for many learning disabled children, and the writing process is this difficult for them. This really is not the worst case scenario, it really is this difficult.”
“Many LD children suffer from something called dysnomia. It’s that word-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue phenomenon that we all have four or five times a day. It happens to the LD kid hundreds of times a day.” This was a moment of epiphany for me. I would joke around and say I must have aphasia, but I was frustrated at not knowing what was wrong with me. ...
Jan 20, 2022 · The F.A.T. City Workshop Video Presentation by Author Rick Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed. January 20, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Free. This unique and interactive program allows participants to experience the same Frustration, Anxiety and Tension that children with learning disabilities face in their daily lives.
This book identifies the six attributes that lead to success for children with learning disabilities — self-awareness, proactivity, perseverance, goal-setting, social support systems, and emotional coping strategies — and presents structured activities that foster those traits in students.
