If a learning disabled student is showing signs of being a highly sensitive child, how does this issue affect reading remediation?
Highly sensitive children are ones that are often hyper-alert to their environments. Their senses and perceptions are acute. This can result in their sensory feeling that their clothes itch, for example, or deep intuitive awareness of their differences from classmates or siblings due to a difference in learning capacity or styles. This may result in their being fearful of or overly stimulated by novel events, noise, or bright lights that do not disturb the average youngster. Highly sensitive children generally respond well to calm settings, modulated voice tone, predictable routines and teachers and parents who establish security, trust and safe boundaries.
