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1) The document discusses the F.A.T. City workshop and how it aims to demonstrate the difficulties faced by students with learning and mild disabilities. 2) Key challenges covered include delayed processing, lack of risk-taking in academics due to fear of embarrassment, difficulties with visual perception and comprehension, issues with auditory vs visual learning styles, and cognitive overload from multi-tasking. 3) The participant found the workshop activities that seemed easy were actually difficult, and came to better understand students' perspectives and struggles through experiencing errors and feeling their responses were "wrong."

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F.A.T. City Notes PDF

1) The document discusses the F.A.T. City workshop and how it aims to demonstrate the difficulties faced by students with learning and mild disabilities. 2) Key challenges covered include delayed processing, lack of risk-taking in academics due to fear of embarrassment, difficulties with visual perception and comprehension, issues with auditory vs visual learning styles, and cognitive overload from multi-tasking. 3) The participant found the workshop activities that seemed easy were actually difficult, and came to better understand students' perspectives and struggles through experiencing errors and feeling their responses were "wrong."

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F.A.T. City Workshop: How Difficult Can This Be?


by Richard Lavoie

F.A.T. City
Frustration
Anxiety
Tension

Processing:
Name 2 ways delayed processing effects a student’s performance
1. Distractibility
2. Attention Span

Risk Taking:
Name 2 ways you as a teacher can reduce the fear of academic risk-taking during class.
1. Do not have “surprises” in class.
2. Give positive reinforcement and don’t embarrass the students if they get the answer wrong.
Visual Perception:
A) What do teachers often do when a child cannot do academic tasks students say they cannot do?
1. “Look at it harder”
2. Promise student something, bribing What is the picture?

3. Blaming the Victim or Taking “things” away from student Face of a Cow.
(ex: No recess).
B) What is the difference between seeing & perceiving?
1. Seeing is everyone can see it (ex: picture, academics).

2. Perception is bringing meaning to it (ex: the picture, academic) with the help of a teacher to give
him direct instruction.

Reading Comprehension:
What is necessary for children to be able to comprehend?
1. Teaching children vocabulary and make sure they understand the vocabulary within a passage.
2. Give direct instruction from teachers on how to read and help understand the comprehension.
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Effect of Visual Perception:


List 2 tasks that are difficult for children with learning / mild disabilities.
1. Children with learning/mild disabilities have difficult perceiving Write a title for the picture.
information and not knowing what they did wrong if teachers get
The Lost Skull
upset for misperceiving.
2. Visual motor integration and the writing process is difficult for
children with learning/mild disabilities.
Cognitive Processing:
Explain the difference between an associative and a cognitive processing.
1. Associative Process / Activity is doing 2 more things at a time
2. Cognitive Process / Activity is doing 1 thing at a time

What are the two lessons when the group is telling a story?
1. Difficult cognitively to speak among children with learning/mild disabilities.
2. Anxiety can come across children with learning/mild disabilities so give them time to complete the
task.
Auditory / Visual Learners:
List two examples of problems or struggles associated with auditory vs visual learners:
1. Auditory learners have difficult reading and understand information and are may help if the information
is delivered through audio tapes or listening to the information.
2. Visual learners have difficult with reading the word and perceiving individual letters. The letters may
show different shape in visual learners where it becomes difficult to perceive the word.
Fairness:
What does fairness mean? Fairness means what giving him or her the needs they need to succeed.
Paragraph Reflection:
F.A.T. City Workshop was a great learning process. Observing the different interacting activities that I
thought would come across as easy was rather difficult. The activity I was even doing in this worksheet,
I perceived the information wrong and felt appalled that the answer I chose or wrote down was “wrong”
because of what the teacher’s perspective was. This allowed me to understand what children with learning
disabilities may go through. In conclusion, students with learning disabilities simply learn differently and
the workshop showed many ways on how they can learn, what helps, and what some struggles that come
along the learning process are, which I enjoyed watching and learning myself. Also the instructor, or
“teacher,” of the workshop played a great role on how teachers may interact with children with
mild/learning disabilities in a classroom and gave an understanding in the anxiety and frustration it can
have on children.

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