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          When it comes to teaching strategies for children with learning disabilities, there doesn’t seem to be one right answer because each child has needs unique to themselves. There are times when it is beneficial to the kid having a hard time to stay in the classroom with everyone else but more often than not, a one-on-one teacher situation has better outcomes. An individual, child-specific learning environment allows each child to learn at their own rate with learning tools that challenge them academically. But understanding that each situation is completely unique is also very important. Some kids would actually benefit from staying in the classroom with the rest of their classmates, while others could have the completely opposite outcome. In the high school that I graduated from, the classes that were individualized for those who had a harder time were conditional. Say they had a very hard time with math and science but was able to handle history or music, they would be in individual classes for math and science. Then they would be with everybody else in history and music. This allowed us to have amazing relationships with every single person in our school as well as allowing each person to have an equal opportunity at scholastic achievement.