Why choose this option?

This is the next best choice if you don’t have a learner who is willing to come for an interview.

Materials and equipment

Video: Creating Learning Partners – Meeting Someone with a Learning Disability, or the first seven minutes of the video by Janet Johnston, Adults with Learning Disabilities: The Road to Success
TV and VCR
Handout 10.7: General Characteristics of Learners with Learning Disabilities

Preparation

Cue the video you have chosen.
Copy handout.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

1. Show the video clip you have selected. Ask tutors to listen as if this were their learner.
2. After the video clip is finished, ask tutors to read over the handout General Characteristics of People with Learning Disabilities and think about what characteristics are true for the person in the video.
3. Discuss the tutors’ ideas.
4. State that the characteristics on the handout are very general and some may not reflect the learners that tutors will work with.