I have been an English teacher in Primary School with Polish Language Teaching in Český Těšín
for 9 years now, the same school I once attended. There are three English teachers and all three
of us are teaching both first and second graders. I have had a lot of opportunity to experience
a great diversity in every single class. Apart from obvious differences like age, gender and
interest in various subjects, there are students, for whom English is rather difficult to learn. SLD
students are very often among them. In order to help the students I try to invent all kinds of
scaffolding activities, use multisensory devices, work in groups and organize a half an hour
tutoring. SLD students have to face a number of difficulties due to their disabilities. The fact that
they take part in the activities and extra tutoring may be because of their parents‟ insisting, or
that the students are in fact willing to face their disability and want to find their way, experience
success and see progress. Being an SLD student myself I had to, and sometimes still have to,
fight my way through the thickets of my dyslexia disability. I can easily imagine all the stress
and luck of self confidence, for at my time SLD was an unknown phenomena and I had to
struggle on my own. I also know that it is possible to get the disability under control, to become
acquainted with it, and even like it. Yet, a hard work is absolutely necessary here. Yet, this hard
work can follow, when a person is actually interested in a subject, has a positive attitude and
experiences at least some success. On the other hand, it is impossible to avoid a failure too, or
the fact that there will be people more successful in the subject.