| Learner Profile | Simeoni doesn’t like to write because he can’t spell most words. He can’t sound them out so he feels lost and stupid. Simeoni wants to be able to write simple answers to questions. |
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| Short Term Goal | To write at the 110 level to reach his education goal. |
| Demonstration | Simeoni must answer simple questions based on a story he has read. The answers have to be sentences and the words must be spelled correctly. |
| Skill and Level | Writes answers to simple comprehension questions in sentence form. |
| Effect of the Learning Disability | Simeoni’s visual memory is good once he learns a word, but using sounds to spell is extremely difficult. He needs a more reliable way to write words he can’t remember how to spell. |
| Accommodation | Simeoni has a small book that he is using as a personal dictionary. Later as he gets a job these words and others can be loaded on his computer or palm pilot. Simeoni is not evaluated on his ability to spell individual words (for example, during a spelling test) but on his ability to produce a correctly spelled sentence. |
| Learner’s Words | “This word book I use is great. It took me a while to decide that my tutor was right; that it is better for me to write using the words in the book than it is to not write because I can’t figure out how to spell that myself. I love it that it doesn’t go against me, my poor spelling that is. Now I’m getting to be a pretty good writer. I never seem to be able to say what I wanted when I talked. Now I can get my idea across when I write. Funny huh?” |