To discuss this issue properly, there are a few things you would need to know about Teri. For example, and this is an incomplete list: * Did she have a central auditory processing disorder that made her unable to process information in the way you were giving it to her, but able to process it better some other way? What did her IEP say about her best modes of learning and how would she have done in French if her IEP were being properly implemented? * What was her previous experience of French? Did it involve trauma that made her believe she couldn't learn French, or that playing dumber than she was would result in a reward you couldn't see? (For example, was she hoping that if she failed the class, she'd be exempt from French?) * What was her home life like? Did she get enough to eat and enough sleep? Was she being abused?
Those are off the top of my head. There are potentially many more reasons why Teri may not have been able to learn French at that time, in that way, with you as her primary instructor, that do not indicate she could never possibly under any circumstances master the material to any meaningful level.
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* Did she have a central auditory processing disorder that made her unable to process information in the way you were giving it to her, but able to process it better some other way? What did her IEP say about her best modes of learning and how would she have done in French if her IEP were being properly implemented?
* What was her previous experience of French? Did it involve trauma that made her believe she couldn't learn French, or that playing dumber than she was would result in a reward you couldn't see? (For example, was she hoping that if she failed the class, she'd be exempt from French?)
* What was her home life like? Did she get enough to eat and enough sleep? Was she being abused?
Those are off the top of my head. There are potentially many more reasons why Teri may not have been able to learn French at that time, in that way, with you as her primary instructor, that do not indicate she could never possibly under any circumstances master the material to any meaningful level.