ED, LD, and Mental Health Issues in the Regular Classroom:
Tips for Teachers

In an age when more and more children and adolescents with disabilities and mental health issues are being educated in regular classrooms, educators look to find teaching strategies that are geared toward accommodating pupils with diverse learning needs. This course combines concise overviews of a plethora of disabilities and links them to practical suggestions aimed at creating functional learning environments for students in a regular classroom setting. This course touches on issues such as mood disorders, various forms of learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, ADHD, and other areas of need that approximately 20% of all students may well possess. This course also introduces instructional strategies within a response-to-intervention (RTI) framework. How RTI can improve schools and how it can be applied to specific reading, math, writing, and classroom management practices are introduced. Comprehensive in scope, this course offers classroom strategies for various emotional and learning disabilities and makes them understandable and usable within the regular classroom setting.