One in eleven students has a language learning disability.
From the beginning, children use language to communicate: to question, to pass on information and to tell stories. Teachers use language to chat, explain, instruct, direct, discipline and reason.
If apparently alert, capable students have difficulty with understanding or using spoken language - and thus have difficulty with reading, writing and understanding written language - it is essential to consider they may have a language learning disability (LLD).
One in Eleven: Teaching Adolescents with a Language Learning Disability is a whole-school approach that identifies LLD students and offers suggestions for teaching and learning strategies to address this difficulty in various school contexts, especially in subject areas.
Key Features
-Case-study examples of explicit teaching strategies
-Practical recommendations made through the use of photocopy masters
-Part I identifies LLD students with easily accessible and up-to-the-minute information about this disability.
-Part II considers key issues that arise for students and outlines practical suggestions to use in the classroom.
-Part III examines taking the existing curriculum and changing it in ways that will allow success at school for LLD students.
