Examples of Overall Difficulties

• Difficulty understanding relationships between concepts

• Difficulty generalizing or making connections between new material and acquired knowledge

• Difficulty seeing the big picture and how things relate to each other

• Problems understanding and evaluating opinions/views of others

• Problems troubleshooting and figuring out how things work

• May appear confused with task demand

Overall Strategies

• Define relationships and connections between ideas in a concrete way

• Compare new concepts to previously learned ones

• Provide opportunities to sort, classify, and categorize

• Use demonstrations with a think-aloud procedure followed by guided practice with feedback

• Make use of graphic organizers to assist in unifying information and breaking information apart

Accommodations

• Provide an outline of content to be covered in the lesson

• Allow sufficient time for review and practice, as well as time to share and discuss ideas