Little did we know when I was a student about SpLDs and the difficulties these kids were facing, struggling every single day to “survive” at school. I suppose that time, our teachers were also in the dark as I can clearly remember that their reactions to those students’ behavior and learning abilities, were almost the same we had as their classmates. Mainly, we thought of them as being indifferent, lazy or even stupid. That really didn’t help. They were frustrated and either became isolated or more aggressive.
Things are different nowdays as we have done a lot of talking about SpLDs and awareness has risen. Noone could argue that teaching children with SpLDs is easier said than done, but I feel that knowing more about it now, I will avoid making the same mistakes I did before!
I’ll try to create a safe class environment for them, make sure they have everybody’s respect .Be more patient and sympathetic and make efforts for them to believe that if they have the help they need and keep trying they can really make it!