KWL-IG special education

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Trevor Rolfe is a 16-year-old sophomore student who attends Clay Local High

School. Trevor has severe hearing loss, but uses hearing aids. His parents taught him sign

language at a young age. Trevor also has 4/20 vision, but it is corrected when he is

wearing glasses. Trevor has dyslexia, a minor learning disability, which inhibits him from

completing the curriculum on his own, unlike his nondisabled peers. He is in an all-

inclusive classroom but because of his dyslexia he has an aid, which reads to him because

he mixes up his letters and words, numbers, and signs.

When Trevor was about four months old, his parents noticed that he did not

respond to them when they walked in the room. He was not startled by loud noises and

did not seem to recognize when little things happened around him. Trevor’s parents took

him to a hearing specialist to discover what was wrong with him. Trevor was identified

with vision loss at age two. When watching TV, he had to sit really close to the television

and had trouble playing with different toys. He often forgot where he put things because

he could not see them. They went to an eye specialist and they tested him with the

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clinical low-vision assessment, which recommended that would benefit from optical

lenses.

Trevor says he wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the

Technology Coordinator at Clay High. Trevor took the OAA in 8 th

grade and got a

proficient in Reading scoring a 402 and a proficient (but low) Math score of 400. Since

he is in 10 th

grade, he will be given a Career Assessment along with an Interest Survey

administered by Career Specialists to determine what he is interested in. These tests will

help Trevor’s parents and educators make appropriate decisions when planning his

postsecondary education. Trevor will also take the OGT, or the Ohio Graduation Test, at

the end of his sophomore year so he can graduate and attend college. Trevor will take the

ACT when he is a junior in hope to receive a composite score of 21.

While Trevor suffers from some impairments, he does well in school. Trevor’s

favorite subject is Math, but it does not come easy to him. Because of his dyslexia, he

struggles with mixing up numbers and letters, making it hard for him to correctly copy

down problems and formulas. This is especially challenging for him in Geometry because

there are so many formulas that he has to memorize. He has no trouble memorizing the

formulas, but when he tries to write them down he gets mixed up. However, he loves

solving equations and is able to answer some upper level math problems.

Trevor’s other main weakness is reading because of his dyslexia. He struggles

with reading and writing. Trevor mixes up words and spells some things backwards

making his work similar to cracking a code. However, he is determined to increase his

reading level and works very hard to improve.