1. Provide explicit instruction:

   Explicit instruction is an essential part of the Structured Literacy approach to reading, particularly beneficial for students with learning disabilities. It involves clear, step-by-step guidance from teachers, including defining terms, modeling, providing examples, and offering direct instructions on the board to support literacy skills, especially reading comprehension.

   2. Build on students’ prior knowledge: Good readers make meaning by linking new information to what they already know. Building prior knowledge is important throughout the reading process, not just for understanding. This approach is particularly helpful for students with learning disabilities. Encouraging students to connect texts to their own experiences before, during, and after reading improves their comprehension.

   3. Have students identify themes: Theme identification is crucial for early reading comprehension. For younger students, it involves recognizing the lesson or moral of a story. As students' comprehension skills grow, theme identification becomes more complex. For elementary students, it helps build background knowledge that can be applied to future texts.

   4. Use graphic organizers: Graphic organizers are visual tools that help students identify, organize, and remember key concepts from texts. They come in various forms, like Venn diagrams and flow charts, and are especially useful for students with learning disabilities. By focusing on key information, graphic organizers help students avoid getting overwhelmed by unnecessary details.

   5. Incorporate literature circles: Graphic organizers are visual tools that help students identify, organize, and remember key concepts from texts. They come in various forms, like Venn diagrams and flow charts, and are especially useful for students with learning disabilities. By focusing on key information, graphic organizers help students avoid getting overwhelmed by unnecessary details.

AAIDD’s Goals

1. Enhance the capacity of professionals who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

   2. Promote the development of a society that fully includes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  

   2. Sustain an effective, responsive, well-managed, and responsibly governed organization.

      
      

      AAIDD’s Principles

      1. Cultivate and provide leadership in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities that encompasses a diversity of disciplines, cultures, and perspectives. 

      2. Enhance the skills, knowledge, rewards, and conditions of people currently working in the field and encourage promising students to pursue careers in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

      3. Advance the assurance of all human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including equality, individual dignity, choice, and respect. Promote genuine accommodations to expand participation in all aspects of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, opportunities for choice and self-determination, and access to quality health, education, vocational, and other human services and supports.

      4. Influence positive attitudes and public awareness to contributions of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

      5. Establish partnerships and strategic alliances with organizations that share our values and goals.

1. Scholarships- the National Center for Learning Disabilities has several scholarships for those with learning disabilities:

   1. ADHD College Success Scholarship

   2. Anne Ford Scholarship

   3. Allegra Ford Thomas Scholarship

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