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 * //Children with Reading Disability//**

In the article // Children with Reading Disability // by Robert Bock, the issue of children with reading disabilities is discussed. First of all Bock says that the

disability springs from problems processing letter sounds and understanding how they work. At least twenty percent of children have this disability and the

inability to master this task leads to future problems. Since they have not been able to learn to read these children cannot read to learn later on in life. The

inability not only makes it difficult to do simple tasks such as reading cooking instructions on a box, but it also closes the door on information to learn and

expand on their learning. Bock gives the example of the internet and how most of our information is presented through text. Around 10 million children have

a difficult time learning to read and the best way teachers can help their students is to design special curriculum for them.

I found this article very helpful in one aspect and that was explaining exactly what most children with a reading disability have a problem with. The

article was very thorough when explaining children’s difficulties with the way that words become sounds, because I really had never thought about it before.

I never really knew what the common cause was, I thought that maybe it was more like Dyslexia or something. The only thing I really wish that the article

had more of was how to help students, even if there is no main treatment, it would have been nice if they listed some. Looking into it more the website in

which this article is from, Rocket Readers, does have a lot of information on it. Reading this article has made me want to read more on different way to help

these children with their reading.

This will impact my classroom a lot I guess no matter what age group I end up teaching. Children will need to always need to read in the classroom,

maybe not so much with kindergarteners, but with the older grades most defiantly. Even though I am going to be an art teacher children will still need to read

in my classroom. I could assign them to research an artist on the internet or give them an assignment on a handout. Reading is intermingled into ever subject

in school and that is why these students fall behind if they do not get help. That is why it is good to know any of the special needs of the children in your

class room so that you can teach them the best that you can.

Bock, R. (2010, November 16). Children with reading disability. Retrieved April 27, 2012, from //Reading Rockets// website: http://www.readingrockets.org

Comments: This article related to mine. My article was on communication and speech problems. I agree no matter what grade or subject you teach you will always encounter these disablilities and have to know how to help your students. -Emily Tessar

Alisha- I think that it is a very important thing for teachers to be able to adress and fix this problem. Like stated in the review, reading is an extremely important task that students need to learn and master at a young age. If not, it can affect them for the rest of the lives. Like you said, I wish that the article stated ways to be able to help children that have difficulty reading. It also makes me curious.

For the “Text Talk” assignment I choose the movie //Temple Grandin// (2010). Temple Grandin (Claire Danes) has been diagnosed since she was very young. Although she was never even supposed to be talk, with the help of her mother (Julia Ormond), Temple is quite functional. The film covers much of Temple’s life, but focuses on her college and the later years in her education. Even though she faced many challenges in life and in her schooling, Temple is very bright in science. //Temple Grandin// is the true story of a woman who became one of the world’s top scientific minds in the humane treatment of livestock. // Temple Grandin // covered one level of autism. There are many different levels of how functional special education children are. The movie did not really change my perception of this mental disorder. My mom is an Occupational Therapists (OT) who works for MPS and before I was in school I would go to work with her at The Center for Blind and Visually Impaired Children. Although I did not understand the many mental disorders when I was there I still remember many of the kids. I have grown up hearing stories and being around different kinds of disorders. It helped me to understand the many levels of how functional children are. These experiences will help me in the classroom because you never know what the students’ needs will be. I did like how the film showed her thought process that she had and really demonstrated how she thought through pictures. It really helps you get an understanding of all of the different kind of thought processes that students have whether they are a visual learner or something completely different. I would recommend this movie to other simply because it is a well done film and they do an excellent job portraying her life. Claire Danes does an amazing job with this role; she really makes you believe that she is a highly functional autistic. This would be a very good movie to show in a class, but I would only recommend that it would be used with high school or older. It might be a little had for younger children to understand and appreciate.