math for learning disabled

Due to the nations response to the low ranking in international comparison math tests, there has been an increase of the graduation requirements for mathematics. As the standards for mathematics increase in the United States public schools, students with learning disabilities in math classes are placed at an even greater disadvantage because of their difficulties in acquiring and retaining knowledge (Witzel, Smith, & Brownell, 2001). In order to save these students from drowning in the pool of these additional demanding requirements, special teaching strategies must be implemented in secondary education mathematics classrooms.
Students who have learning disabilities are of average to above average intelligence but lack proficiencies that affect their ability to successfully learn math skills. The struggles and complications that learning-disabled students encounter in math classes varies from student to student. The deficiencies that they experience involve language, memo...