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The View from F.A.T. City:
Richard Lavoie on frustration, anxiety and tension
1. Anytime you
as a teacher decide to use sarcasm with students – understand that you have
created a victim.
2. Learning
disabled students have difficulty processing language – so when the non-LD
students are processing the answer, the LD students are still processing the
question.
3. The student
with no attention span pays attention to nothing – the student who is
distractible pays attention to everything.
4. LD students
do not like surprises. They don’t like dealing with something if they don’t know
what’s coming up.
5. When we deal with LD adults, we find their most common problem is they won’t
take chances -because all of the
risk-taking was knocked out of them in their early years.
6. Motivation
only enables us to do – to the best of our ability – what we are already capable
of doing.
7. LD has very
little to do with motivation: what it really has to do with is perception.
8a. The F.A.T. City simulation doesn’t really count for the experience of the LD
student since no one in the room could do the task.
8b. The real experience of being LD is being the only one who can’t do
it.
9a. Everything you do in life is either cognitive or associate.
9b. You can only do one cognitive thing at a time – but you can do two or more
associative things at a time.
10. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give the LD student is the gift of
time.
11. Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same – fairness actually means
that everyone gets what he or she needs.
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