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This 3-page paper reviews the Alan Hoffman article "Teaching Decision-Making to Students with Learning Disabilities," focusing on how educators can help students with learning disabilities to better move toward self-determination and independent decision making. Bibliography lists one source.
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will continue to be important long after the student leaves school. However, making good decisions means knowing yourself -- and many times, students with learning disabilities might not have that
strong self-determination. In his article, "Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self-Determination," author Alan Hoffman points out
the ways in which self-determination can be fostered among those students who might be learning disabled. Why is self-determination so important?
Hoffman points out that "self determination is a combination of skills, knowledge and beliefs that enable a person to engage in goal-directed, self-regulated, autonomous behavior." Along with this, self-determination helps
a person know his/her strengths and limitations as well. The problem in our society, though, is that those who are learning
disabled may not only have against them their disabilities (which are generally hidden, or undiagnosed), but also the stigmatization of society when it comes to the disabilities. Even those who
might know their disabilities will stay silent about them, for fear that they might end up being ostracized if they let the information out.
The problem is, hiding the disabilities means the students tend to hide self-awareness of themselves, meaning it can be difficult to develop strong beliefs about themselves (as
well as a true knowledge of their limitations. As a result, "learned helplessness," self-failure and inappropriate social skills (as well as functioning skills) could be problematic in this particular individuals
when it comes to decision-making skills. This is further enhanced by the fact that students with learning disabilities are, more often
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