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Expert: - 12/1/2009


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Why are graphic organizers important for students with learning disabilities?
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Meera

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Hi there, Meera!

"Graphic Organizers?" I asked myself when I first read this question. But a quick look at Google explained to me just what it is, and made it fairly easy for me to answer the question.

The reason that Graphic Organizers are important for students with (certain) learning disabilities is because there are many learning disabilities where actual images are much more effective than simple concepts. With a graphic organizer, the information that they are trying to follow can be easily outlined in a visual way, thus allowing for their minds to grasp a concept more firmly than if you were simply using words. In addition, by making it a picture, rather than a handful of words, it becomes a great deal easier to memorize this information for later dates.

Hopefully that helped answer your question! As per usual, if there are further questions, comments, feedback, or follow-ups, don't hesitate to ask!

Trey

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My primary expertise is in the area of the social, psychological, and mental development of Aspergers Syndrome and other high-functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders. I am also very knowledgeable in the communication disorders and common co-existing issues. I'm well-read on most of these as well as having experienced it myself. Other aspects of autism, I can do fairly well at as well, from the oversensitivity to the recognition of it. Warning: I am *not* a medical professional, and while I can research answers through books and online, I can not give direct medical expertise.

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I am 19 years diagnosed Asperger's Autistic, and have been reading up and studying it, as well as taking 'first hand accounts' for most of those 14 years. In addition, I have had three children, adopted elsewhere, all of whom are varying degrees of autistic from mid to high functioning. My mother has done some research on the subject as well, and passed some of it on to me.

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I have completed grade school and most of high school, and achieved a GED. I've also received home schooling.

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