Special Needs Case Study Analysis

Some symptoms of a learning disability that Nathan displays are the following: forgetfulness, like when he forgot to finish his tests and forgot to turn in his homework, and being distracted easily, like not finishing assignments or tests.

Some of the accommodations that Nathan has received in the past include: a diagnosis of a learning disability, 'special services' in his elementary schools through the resource rooms, and medicine to help him calm down.

Some strategies I might recommend would be for him to have a clean and organized work space, a consistent manner of turning in his homework every day, signing a planner-the teacher at school and the parents at home- to stay on the same page(literally-ha), a posted schedule of the daily classroom schedule, and maybe having most of his exams be given orally.

From this web site--http://www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p51-adhd.html--I learned that ADD and ADHD are the most common behavioral disorders in American children. ADHD affects as many as 3 1/2 million American children, or as many as 5 % of Americans under the age of 18. That means that there could be as many as 5% of the kids in my class, that may have ADHD, and that statistic doesn't include the percentage of ADD children, which would increase the percentage of those two specific common behavioral issues in the classroom. There are other behavioral disorders that include symptoms of distraction and forgetfulness that could also play a part in the classroom. It is almost expected to have children in each classroom with behavioral disorders.