Success and Outcomes of Adults With Learning Differences

Learning differences are a risk factor that increases the likelihood of poor ________________

• Adequate social graces, Life-adjustment skills, and school funds

• Life-adjustment skills, inadequate social graces, and insufficient workplace readiness

• School funds, pre-placement options, parental interventions

The range of learning differences in adults are from.....

• The beginning of their post-secondary lives and performing everyday tasks.

• The general arc of their lives to relationships and performing everyday tasks.

• Their first transitional from Elementary school to middle school until their last transition from high school to post-secondary

A theoretical context that arose in the late 1980s was the ___________ and _____________

• General arc of living and phenomenon of risk.

• Anticipating outcomes and prioritizing.

• Self-awareness and accountability.

• Phenomenon of risk and resilience.

True or False: Self-acceptance may be more important that any material manifestation of success.

• True

• False

True or False:

Best practices should not result from a focus on what individuals with learning differences can do rather than on what they cannot.

• True

• False

Lifespan preparation should be ________ and _________

• The keystone to unlock potential and a factor for suitable living environments .

• The core of curriculum and instruction.

• Explored and nurtured.

• Taught every often and when necessary.

True or False:

Exploring the whats and whys of negative outcomes is the best way to help students with learning differences to prepare for their adult world.

• True

• False

Transition strategies must involve getting students to buy into using available supports, from academic to basic adult needs, when they have proven to be helpful.

Because:

• Those supports are invisible and hard to be found.

• They don’t want to be identified as having a disability.

• This is the only way they can get the support.

• Those services are difficult to use.

In book, The Dyslexic Advantage, the author uses the acronym MIND to capture the unique strengths of individuals with dyslexia. What are those strengths?

• Spiritual and static reasoning.

• Material and Dynamic reasoning.

• Complex and systematic reasoning.

• Quantitative and Qualitative reasoning

Which hemisphere of the brain, as explained by Malcolm Gladwell, is aligned to creative individuals/conceptually and visual, advantage.

• Right-brain

• Left-brain

• Central Lobe

• Both Left and Right