Learning disabilities can cause difficulties in areas like reading, writing, math, and language processing. This can lead to misunderstandings in the classroom and bullying by peers. Students with physical or intellectual disabilities may also face harassment. Creating accommodations, emphasizing abilities over disabilities, and anti-bullying programs can help. Factors like poverty, lack of access to technology, cultural norms that discourage speaking up, gender discrimination, and language barriers can also negatively impact students' learning and participation. Motivation, role models, encouragement, and equal treatment can help address these issues.

1. Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities involve a
broad spectrum of diverse
problems.
This may lead to:
1. Misunderstandings in the
classroom
2. Teasing from peers or
inappropriate intervention from
school authorities.

2. National Center on Secondary
Education and Transition -
bullying and teasing of children
with learning disabilities has risen
since 2003.
Often, school authorities ignore the
harassment in an attempt to let the
children "sort it out" or blame is
automatically placed on the child

3. Dyslexia – reading
difficulty reading single words
(decoding)
phonological difficulties
recalling sight words - word naming
verbal memory span
naming speed
orthographic processing
short-term auditory memory

4. Dyscalculia -
Mathematics
quantitative thinking
arithmetic
time
space
calculation

5. Dysgraphia –
written expression
spelling
handwriting
written composition

6. Dysphasia –
oral language
receptive
expressive

7. Solutions:
1. More one-on-one
interaction
Example:
*a small tutoring program
*homeschooling
*peer coaching

8. Physical disabilities, like being
blind, deaf or paralyzed
Students with physical
disabilities are subject to
teasing as well.
There is often a misconception
that because a person is
physically disabled he is also

9. Solution:
 School accommodations
should be created for the
disabled child.
 Emphasize that being
disabled is not a hindrance
to learning.
 Start & support anti-bullying

10. Ethnicity
•Students who live in ethnic
neighborhoods may not have
access to high-quality schools.
•If students live in neighborhoods
that are low income, they often do
not have the societal support to
thrive in school.

11. Students in our country
have less access to
computers and
technology than
students from other
countries, with a
resulting limitation on
their educational

12. Filipino Culture:
 We were raised to never
talk back at our elders.
 Young people are not
allowed to say anything
when elders talk.
 Young people are
disrespectful if they do so.

13. Those who are new to
the language may
experience harassment
for not being able to
speak proficiently.

14. Hard Habit to Break
 This problem needs gradual
adjustment.
 We should encourage students to
speak their minds.
 All answers are considered
opinions.
 Suggestions should always be
welcome.
 Allow students to raise questions

15. Solutions:
Discipline
Explain
Encourage
Reward
Speaking is okay.

16. Poverty is a
significant barrier to
children succeeding
in school.

17. Research by the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation
shows that students who
come from impoverished
families do not have the
same level of academic
support as children who
live in higher-income
families.

18. These children do not
have the same access to
books, computers,
classes and other
supplements to after-
school learning.

19. Poverty:
 Inaddition, the parents of low-
income students often have lower
levels of education, and there may
be no highly educated adults in the
household to help these children
complete homework assignments
or act as role models..

20. This lack of mentoring
can create an
environment in which the
student lacks the
motivation to study and
succeed.

21. Solution:
 Communicate with the parents of the
student.
 Motivate the students or give them a
reason to strive harder.
 Give reference books from the library
that they can use instead of internet
surfing.
 Lend hand outs for those students who
really need it.
 Tell students inspirational stories about
independent learning.

22. Gender discrimination is one
barrier to participation in the
classroom.

23. Example, there is often a lack
of role models that fall outside
traditional gender expectations
for girls, such as being a
homemaker, or occupations,
such as a nurse or
schoolteacher.

24. "Bridging the Gap: Gender Equity
in Science, Engineering and
Technology" from the Center for
Women and Work at Rutgers
University, girls who do not have
role models for higher-paying jobs
in the sciences and technology
have lower self-confidence and
career aspirations.

25. Solutions:
 Encouragement
 Give information about people
they can look up to.
 Give activities that will boost
self-confidence.
 Treat everyone in the class
fairly.