Running Head : Exceptional Learners Teaching Exceptional Learners Susan Beckman BHE324 , TUI University Dr . Victoria Kirkland 27th April , 2009 Teaching Learners with disability Disability is defined as any form of physical or mental impairment . The learners with disability therefore exhibit either physical or mental impairment , yet they have to be taught same content as their normal counterparts . Statistically , there are over 5 individuals who are disabled with over 2 .8 million disabled learners receiving health education (Grosshans and Kiger , 2004 . This remains a daunting challenge to health education practitioners to teach health principles to disabled learners . In this line of thought that this paper shall explore teaching of this disabled category of learners . To start with shall be an understanding the nature learner , of which in my knowledge precedes designing and delivering health education instruction .The goal of health education is to educate learners on variety of health activities and concepts that provide learners with health skills such as nutrition , sexual education , communication , and diseases prevention .Focus of teachers or facilitators in such a program is on both product and process . In order for educator to ensure quality of instruction process and product , the educator must learn to work and identify him or herself with disabled learners as part of attitude change (Cavalier ,1998 . In this regard , learning disability is referred to as learner ‘s neurological disorder (s ) that hampers learner ‘s memory to process information in terms of coding , storage and retrieval that creates gap between performance and ability of…