How to Identify Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities affect one in 10 schoolchildren. These are problems that can be detected in children from 5 years of age and are of great concern for many parents as they go to school achievement and interpersonal relationships of their children.
A child with learning problems often has a normal level of intelligence, visual and auditory acuity. It’s a boy who strives to follow instructions, concentrate and behave well at home and at school. Your challenge is to capture process and master the tasks and information, and then develop them later. The child with this problem simply can not do that others with the same level of intelligence can achieve.
The child with specific learning problems has unusual patterns of perceiving things in the external environment. His neurological patterns are different from other children their same age. However they have in common some type of failure in school or community.
How to detect learning problems in children
It’s not difficult to detect when a child is having trouble processing the information and training they receive. Parents should be alert and aware of the most common signals that indicate the presence of a learning problem, when the child:
- Has difficulty understanding and following tasks and instructions.
- Has difficulty remembering what someone just said.
- Do not mastered basic reading skills, spelling, writing and / or math, therefore failing in school work.
- Has difficulty of distinguishing between right and left, to identify words, etc. Their tendency is to write letters, words or numbers backwards.
- It lacks coordination in walking, sports or performs simple activities, such as hold a pencil or tying a shoelace.
- Provides easy to lose or misplace your school supplies such as books and other items.
- Has difficulty understanding the concept of time, confusing the “yesterday”, with “Today” and / or “tomorrow.”
- It is easily irritated or excited
Characteristics of learning problems
Children with learning disabilities often have, according to the list obtained from “When Learning is a Problem / LDA (Learning Disabilities Association of America)”, characteristics and / or deficiencies:
Reading (view)
The child very close to the book says words aloud; points, substituted, omitted, and invests the words Sees double, jump and read the same line twice, does not read fluently, has little understanding oral reading; omitted consonants final oral reading, blinking in excess, becomes cross-eyed when reading, tends to rub their eyes and complain that itch, presents problems of visual impairment, poor spelling, among others.
Writing
The boy spent and vary the height of the letters leaves no space between written words and not above the lines; Take the pencil awkwardly and does not define whether it is right or left handed, move and place the paper the wrong way, is write with finger, is poorly organized thinking and poor posture, etc.
Auditory and verbal
The child is apathetic, cold, allergy and asthma often, mispronounced words, breathe through your mouth complains of ear problems, feels dizzy goes blank when he speaks, speaks loudly, depends other visually and closely observes the teacher, can not follow more than one instruction at a time, puts the TV and radio with high volume, etc.
Mathematics
The student spends the numbers, has trouble knowing the time, poor understanding and memory of those numbers, does not answer math, etc.
