Strategies to overcome "Learned Helplessness"

Effective communication skills are necessary to augmentative communication in the classroom and daily classroom routines.  There needs to be communication and availability to see it in a school for all to excel.  "Learned helplessness"are those who have in a way learned that pretending to be "helplessness" or complacent is the best way to work with their disability.  There must be certain strategies in place to overcome this.  There should be a daily expectation of communication through activities.  A daily report that briefly describes the occurrences of the day and how to fix them.  There should be choices in communication as well as powerful phrases to help them express themselves.  There are steps to overcome this "learned helplessness", but these changes should be done slowly.