FIELD EXPERIENCE A: LEARNER DEVELOPMENT
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Learner Development
Amy Johnson
Grand Canyon University: SPD 560
May 15, 2017
FIELD EXPERIENCE A: LEARNER DEVELOPMENT
At Duello Elementary in Mrs. Pennington’s second grade classroom, she has a young boy
with an auditory processing disorder.
This disorder was diagnosed in the first grade when the
child stopped responding, because he was unable to hear out of one of his ears.
It slowing started
to affect his ability to respond in an appropriate manner because he was not hearing like an
average child would.
In the classroom the school hearing specialist and counselor had a sound
system installed in the classroom.
The teacher uses the microphone around her neck during the
classroom and the student sits towards the front of the class so he can hear out of his better ear as
he continually loses hearing now in his other ear.
Fortunately, this delay was caught at a young
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