How can we
identify students with learning disabilities?
How can we identify students with learning disabilities?
The
students with learning disability have some common symptoms through
which they can be identified. These are as follows:
(i) They
have difficulty in reading and writing letters, words, phrases and
speaking. They suffer from hearing problems without any auditory
defect.
(ii) They
have disorders of attention and get distracted easily leading to
hyperactivity.
(iii)
They have poor space orientation and inadequate sense of time. They
also have difficulty in getting oriented to new surroundings and
feel lost. They get confused in following directions and misjudge
right, left, up and down.
(iv)
These children have poor motor coordination and manual dexterity.
(v) They
are unable to understand and follow oral directions.
(vi) They
misjudge relationships as to the classmates who are friendly and the
ones who are not and are unable to comprehend various body
languages.
(vii)
They show perceptual disorders which includes visual, auditory,
tactual and kinesthetic misperception.
(viii)
Many learning disabled children suffer from dyslexia and fail to
copy letters and words and do not learn to organise verbal
materials.
The students with learning disability have some common symptoms through which they can be identified. These are as follows:
(i) They have difficulty in reading and writing letters, words, phrases and speaking. They suffer from hearing problems without any auditory defect.
(ii) They have disorders of attention and get distracted easily leading to hyperactivity.
(iii) They have poor space orientation and inadequate sense of time. They also have difficulty in getting oriented to new surroundings and feel lost. They get confused in following directions and misjudge right, left, up and down.
(iv) These children have poor motor coordination and manual dexterity.
(v) They are unable to understand and follow oral directions.
(vi) They misjudge relationships as to the classmates who are friendly and the ones who are not and are unable to comprehend various body languages.
(vii) They show perceptual disorders which includes visual, auditory, tactual and kinesthetic misperception.
(viii) Many learning disabled children suffer from dyslexia and fail to copy letters and words and do not learn to organise verbal materials.
