There is no need to separate children who have learning disabilities from the others in the class if teachers are trained to use various accommodation techniques, thereby ensuring that all children benefit from instruction.
Al Layne, director of the ADHD Resource Centre, said Friday that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other learning disorders, to some extent, were not intelligence deficits but performance deficits.
Learning aids or accommodation strategies therefore needed to be put in place to help children with such disorders so they could perform the tasks they were asked to do.
Layne, speaking on the final day of a series of training workshops for teachers of primary and secondary schools at PomMarine Hotel, Hastings, Christ Church, said the workshops were intended to give teachers evidence-based strategies for managing mixed-ability classes.
