Help with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
Source: Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities
Topics: Nonverbal Learning Disorder, Nonverbal Learning Disorder Help
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Help train educators and school staff to recognize the academic and social behaviors related to NLD: these are children who ask a lot of questions, have difficulty with transitions, get lost in the hallway, or fail to recognize the face of someone they see every day.
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Keep a set of schoolbooks at home.
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Shorten homework assignments — it’s critical to give enough homework, focusing on mastery of concepts, to reinforce learning without causing overload.
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Prepare and preload by giving new material to an NLD student at least one week in advance.
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Pair each child with a classroom homework buddy.
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Respect children when they say, “I can’t.” Children with NLD rarely lie. If they tell a teacher they cannot do something, they are usually not being oppositional.
Reprinted with the permission of Smart Kids with LD. © Smart Kids with LD, Inc., Westport, Connecticut. All rights reserved.
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