Read Aloud: What Do You Mean I have a Learning Disability?

• Do you notice similarities or differences between you and Jimmy?

• What do you notice about how he’s sitting in this picture?

• Did you ever need to get tested to figure out what kind of learner you are and what type of school is best for you?

What is a disability?

• types/what it looks like

• Why do we go to MMFS?

• How did you feel at your old school? Compare/contract with MMFS

• What are tools that you use at MMFS that help you learn better?

Hopes & Dreams

• See Claire & Christine’s Mimio

The Tools we use at MMFS

• OT tools (desks, cushions, fidgets, gum, water breaks, movement breaks, pencil grips)

• Writing (different lines, highlighted lines, different pencils, typing)

• Multiple modalities of learning: we learn with all our senses!

Lesson on self-advocacy

• Why is it important to ask for help?

• When do we ask for help?

• When do act independently?

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

• See Maggie’s Mimio

• Take survey-- what’s your intelligence?

“Show and Share your strength”