Table manners are a must at the Holidays. However, these social skills do not always come easy to everyone. To help expand your student's understanding for and skill for use of table manners, you might consider partaking in a "social detective" activity using this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXL4Q73uKn0 and a 5 point scale to guide your sleuthing skills in identifying the range of meal time behaviors from 1- Polite, 2-Minor Issue, 3-Disturbing, 4-Offensive, 5-Extremely Rude. The better a student gets at identifying expected vs. unexpected table manners and understanding how mealtime choices impact the way others perceive or think about them, the more likely he or she will be to choose using "expected"/polite table manners. Happy Holidays!!!
Table manners are a must at the Holidays. However, these social skills do not always come easy to everyone. To help expand your student's understanding for and skill for use of table manners, you might consider partaking in a "social detective" activity using this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXL4Q73uKn0 and a 5 point scale to guide your sleuthing skills in identifying the range of meal time behaviors from 1- Polite, 2-Minor Issue, 3-Disturbing, 4-Offensive, 5-Extremely Rude. The better a student gets at identifying expected vs. unexpected table manners and understanding how mealtime choices impact the way others perceive or think about them, the more likely he or she will be to choose using "expected"/polite table manners. Happy Holidays!!! Helping someone "in the moment" as they struggle to communicate can be a challenge. Watch the following informational video-guide to learn how you can use practical tools to help support your student with their communication outside of the school setting:
A specific learning disability is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations. In 2011–12, some 36 percent of all children and youth receiving special education services had specific learning disabilities, 21 percent had speech or language impairments, and 12 percent had other health impairments. Students with autism, intellectual disabilities, developmental delay, and emotional disturbances each accounted for between 6 and 7 percent of children and youth served under IDEA. Children and youth with multiple disabilities, hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, visual impairments, traumatic brain injury, and deaf-blindness each accounted for 2 percent or less of those served under IDEA.
(SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) database, retrieved March 21, 2013, from http://tadnet.public.tadnet.org/pages/712. See Digest of Education Statistics 2013, table 204.30.) For more information on language learning disabilities (LLD), click here: |
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