Learning Disabilities in Students: Journal Article Analysis

Running Head: Learning Disabilities in Students
Learning Disabilities in
Students
Journal Article Analysis
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2/21/2020

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Introduction
The essay is based on the article of Moira Kirby, in which she discussed about the
special education policy for students who are suffering from learning disabilities. The article
focuses on promoting full inclusion for students and supports the concept of special education
of learning disable people. The article states how this neurological disorder affects the career
and study of a student. The essay is based on three journal articles that are based on providing
equal opportunities for the students who are suffering from learning disabilities and ensures
them a healthy lifestyle, which is just like to their friends and other family members.
Discussion
According to Kirby (2017), children with learning disabilities are as smart as the other
students and their friends but they face problems while they reading, writing, spelling, and
recalling any information (Kirby, 2017). The paper promotes the general education to
children and enhances the accessibility of education for the children who are suffering from
learning disabilities.
Public Policy and Learning Disabilities
Moira Kirby has described in her article that public policies are generally affected by
the social construction of disabilities. She has also mentioned in the article that there are two
models that look learning disabilities with different angels. i.e., deficit-based model and
contrasting social construct model (Kirby, 2017). Social construction model is generally
imposed barriers and oppression for the children who are suffering from learning disabilities
while the medical model is related with special educational practices that support the children
to encounter those barriers, which affect the life of a learning-disabled student.

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McGrath and Hughes (2018) has described in their article that teachers generally face
issue while providing education to the learning disabilities students. Apart from this, the
article focuses on how teachers can help students to access the curriculum in easy way. The
article also focuses on the limitations of teachers because they failed to provide proper
accommodations to students who are suffering from this kind of disease.
Mind-set of Learning Disabled Students
Kirby (2018) described in the article that students suffering from learning disabilities
generally feel pride and privilege when they included with their peers and friends in the
classroom. It has been also mentioned in the article that how students face some implicit
assumptions surrounding their disability conditions. However, the assumptions of society are
based on the assumption of medical model of disability. However, it has been also mentioned
in the article that providing better education to the student is only possible when they are
educated in the resource room. The students also feel a positive vibe in the resource room
where they can easily learn and write anything without any problem. McGrath and Hughes
(2018) mentioned in their article that student with learning disabilities needs special care and
more attention from their parents and care centre where they treated by the medical
professionals. The same conditions also apply in educational institutions as well (McGrath &
Hughes, 2018). It has been also described in the article that students with learning disabilities
recognize the support of their peers as a help in their learning process. However, it has been
found that peers generally not intentionally support or provide aid to their learning-disabled
friends. It has been also mentioned that they need to provide systematic support, which is
designed by the complex systematic instructional routines. Bishop (2018) mentioned in his
article that children who are suffering from learning disabled issue generally face high level
of social exclusion or bullying. They build up their own bad image that effect their self-