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Subtitle: Educating Students With NLD, Asperger Syndrome, and Related Conditions. Presents interventions for children whose primary areas of deficit are in the nonverbal domains (tactile, visual, spatial, psychomotor coordination, and generalizing information). Nonverbal Learning Disabilities/Disorder and other Neurological conditions are considered together when making suggestions for methods that can be used to work with these children. Some across-the-board teaching strategies that help NLD students are the use of rubrics and models to show what the final product should look like, unimodel instruction, frontloading, cooperative learning, reduce visual processing, use of graphic organizers. Gives ideas for helping students with social and emotional functioning, with psychomotor skills and spatial. challenges; presents accomodations in arithmetic and math, reading, spelling, vocabulary, penmanship, writing and composition; advises using direct instruction to show how to organize work, how to study, and how to do homework. | |