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By: Sarah Frances Sainworla

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" A learning disability is a neurological condition that interferes with an individual's ability to store, process, or produce information"( Learning Disability Association of America, 2017). As stated in learning disability association of America( 2017) " Learning disability 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 emotionally maturity".

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There are a lot of different learning disability. Some of them are well known and others not so much. The types of learning disability consist of auditory processing disorder, dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Language processing disorder,  non-verbal learning disabilities and visual perceptual /visual motor deficit.

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" 2.4 million students are diagnosed with specific learning disability(SLD) and receive service under IDEA. This represent 41% of all students special education services"( Learning Disability Association of America, 2017).
" 75%-80% of special education students identified as LD have their basic deficits in language and reading"( Learning Disability Association of America, 2017).
" 60% of adults with serve literacy problems have undetected or untreated learning disability"( Learning Disability Association of America, 2017).

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In order to advocate for students with learning disability, my role as the social worker will be to collaborate with staff members, administrators, parents and the community to come up with different methods that is going to be effective in order to help the students.

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https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/getting-started/what-you-need-to-know/9-surprising-facts-about-learning-and-attention-issues

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Tier one intervention are designed to help students that have academic and also behavioral problems. Tier one intervention provide services to all students( Constable at al, p.474 ).
An example of EIP would be to conduct a workshop for students that are having problems academical, give them a test to see the strengths and weakness. Base on their results, the social worker, administrator and parents can have a meeting to see what can be use to help the students.

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Instructions: please answer the following questions as honest as you can.
1. Was my topic clear? why or why not?
2. What is one thing I should have done differently?
3. Do you think that people should advocate more for people that have a learning disability or disabilities? why or why not?
4. What is one thing that you like about my padlet?
5. Overall how do you think I did on this project?

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Tier three intervention  are designed for the students that have intensive academic and behavioral needs. These needs requires long-term  individualized plans.( Constable at al, 2017).
An example of EIP for tier three is the wraparound process that was talked about in the book.The warp around process is important for tier because it is gear towards the students and their family. The social worker will meet with the students, parents and also to see what long-term goal will be put into place in order to help the students to overcome whatever learning disability that they have.

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Tier two intervention is a short term intervention that is individualized for small groups counseling. These counseling are intervention that are provided by the school social worker that's assigned to that school, and other support personnel that is quality for the job.( Constable at al, p. 474). After the test score comes back, an example of EIP intervention for tier two will be to  counsel each child and find out why they are having problems in the classroom ,develop a goal sheet for each student that needs help when it comes to reading, writing, spelling etc. Once each child individualized needs are identify, than teachers can work on each child learning disability that they have.

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The following information below talks about the policies that are  in North Carolina for children with learning disability.
http://ec.ncpublicschools.gov/policies/nc-policies-governing-services-for-children-with-disabilities/policies-children-disabilities.pdf

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New to LD. (2017). Retrieved from https://ldaamerica.org/support/new-to-ld/
Morin, A. (2017). 9 Surprising Facts About Learning and Attention Issues. Retrieved from https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/getting-started/what-you-need-to-know/9-surprising-facts-about-learning-and-attention-issues
Massat, C. P., Kelly, M. S., & Constable, R. (2017). School Social Work Practice, Policy, and Research. Chicago, Illinois: LYCEUM BOOKS,INC.

Morin. (2017). POLICIES GOVERNING SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. Retrieved from http://ec.ncpublicschools.gov/policies/nc-policies-governing-services-for-children-with-disabilities/policies-children-disabilities.pdf