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Educators have an opportunity to offer the Social Supports so critical for students undergoing Adverse Experiences, and can reduce the likelihood of school-based trauma: for example, by avoiding disciplinary policies that disadvantage students of systematically and historically excluded backgrounds, and that aren't supportive of the needs of those students who also have ADHD or learning disabilities.
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By creating patterns and supporting multimodal engagement, new knowledge such as vocabulary, narrative structures, or classroom processes can be more readily encoded and retrieved in Long-term Memory while promoting engagement.
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As such it is important to encourage and allow for gestures as a form of Communication in the classroom.