Learning Disability Experience

     For this experience I asked for help at the library to find a book and I went to a place and asked what hours they are open. When I asked for the hours I failed and ended up using a word with n in it. I had even planned out what I was going to say in my head before and I still failed after a very long awkward pause of trying to figure out what I was going to say to the person. When I asked for help finding the book I did a lot better and actually succeeded but I still had some awkward pauses and my sentences were not quite normal either. At first the girl was a bit confused on what I was even asking and then she figured it out thankfully because I could not think of another way to word my question.
     From this experience I feel like I was better able to understand what happens in a child's mind that has a learning disability. The world is moving so fast around you and the only way to get it to slow down is to ask but that is never a fun thing to do in front of your peers. I felt confused and my mind started racing trying to figure out what to stay and I still failed which was so frustrating. I honestly felt a little dumb because I could not think of any words to replace the words that I wanted to use to complete my thoughts. I also felt embarrassed because I could tell that the people that I was talking to were confused and that they didn't completely understand me.
     This has opened my eyes and made me realize that as a teacher I need to make sure that I slow down and give enough time for all of my students to understand what is being taught. I think to accomplish this I will need to provide a lot of scaffolding and also try to do small group instruction as often as I can so I can meet the individual needs of my student. Just because they may have a learning disability doesn't mean that they can't succeed they just may need a little more help or just simply for the teach to slow down a little bit.
     Although I learned quite a bit from this experience I feel like it would be more beneficial to have to write something without using l and n instead of going and speaking to someone and then having to document the time that you spent on it. I think it could be like a half page to a full page and maybe even a paper about yourself. Even then you might have to not even use your name because it cold contain l and n. Just a suggestion but it was a cool experience and I did learn from it.