We know that all the youth of our country will have to be taught but the question then becomes not if they need to be taught or not but who will teach them? This also brings a rise to another question, what about the learning disabled? Who will teach them? Why special education teachers of course!
Don’t let children with learning disabilities fall between the cracks. Here’s how to help:
Literate Adolescents Intervention Program promotes phonic skills for the learning disabled.
A program called Literate Adolescents Intervention Project or LAIP, for short, is a collaboration between the Los Angeles School District and the California State University where LAIP uses intensive literacy interventions to help promote phonic skills or comprehension. The teachers who are a part of this LAIP program are teachers that have graduated college with their degree in special education. To learn more about this program, read on in the article.
LAIP uses intensive literacy interventions, such as two-hour-long blocks of focused practice on phonics skills or comprehension strategies, to boost the reading ability of high school students with mild to moderate learning disabilities. It includes materials designed to draw the interest of teens and technology to help the kids complete the classwork, bringing methods that have been proved to be effective in a controlled setting into a real-world school environment.
Laura Lurns · Learning Success expert
Key takeaways
- In a basement class room, of neglected hallway in Los Angeles, six student struggle to overcome reading comprehension through one on one interaction lead by Instructor Lindsay Young.
- With the current shortage of special education teacher nationwide, Lindsay Young teaches the Literate Adolescents Intervention Project at the Los Angeles Unified School District developed by the California State University, Northridge
- More than half will fail secondary school course, The LAIP model if successful could give a tool so that our youth can become productive members of society instead of in our prisons.
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