PART I INTRODUCTION
This book is a guide book for elementary school teachers in providing accommodations and modifications to the learning of Children with Learning Disabilities or LD. The guide
book is based on the results of the study as literature, field studies, review experts and practitioners in education as well as experience in dealing with Children with Learning
Disabilities. The introduction discussed about: Background problem, objectives and benefits of accommodations and modifications to the learning of the Children with Learning
Disabilities LD, systematics and scope of the content of the book and how to use this book.
A. Background
Education is certainly not bring students to compartmentalize the process, but education that respects diversity experience of the above sentence is part of a reflection
Josie SH in Kompas May 20, 2008 to interpret the 100 th national awakening. Diversity in education is an obvious fact, but the concern to meet the still fairly minimal. Children
with abilities above average or below average is the figure right and left sides of the Battle of diversity in the classroom. For those who are above the average encountered
Olympics and various development talent that makes increasing school name. On the other hand, those who are low achievers experienced Learning Disabilities Learning
Disabilities is not observed even sometimes removed from school and forced to move schools. This phenomenon shows the imbalance of education in providing its services to
all children.
Focused on childrens services with Disabilities Learn Learning Disabilities, this guide is based on two issues that frequently occur in elementary school, 1 the
existence of children with Disabilities Learn Learning Disabilities which is always found in every elementary school and often difficult for teachers and 2 the handling of
children with Learning Disabilities is not maximized in elementary school. The research findings Pujaningsih et al., In 2002 in the district Berbah find children with Learning
Disabilities by 36 with the details 12 of them slow learner, 16 learning disabilities children with Learning Disabilities and 17 mental retardation mentally retarded
The existence of children with Learning Disabilities many positions of teachers in a difficult situation. This was confirmed by Cook et al. 2000 which revealed that
teachers face a dilemma when there are children who need a certain tolerance in terms of learning. Educational background does not give provision on children with Learning
Disabilities LD, caused almost all regular teachers in elementary face problems in handling them. In addition, the cracked-resources that can help teachers deal with
children with Learning Disabilities was limited so much led to neglect the needs of children with Learning Disabilities.
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This guidebook is one of the solutions in the effort to provide the necessary information in the form of a model primary school teachers handling children with
Learning Disabilities accommodations and modifications based learning and indirectly as a form of improving the quality of learning in the classroom. Guide book
accommodation through the application of modification and learning for children with Learning Disabilities then teachers can provide pedagogical services at one of the
diversity of students in elementary school.
B. Objectives and Benefits
