Contents:
- Medical Video: Early Signs of a Learning Disability or Learning Disorder
- Why can someone experience learning difficulties?
- Sign learning disabilities can be different in each phase of life
- Children under five years old
- Children aged 5-9 years
- Early adolescence (10-13 years)
- Late teens and adults
- Various forms of learning difficulties
- Disorders of reading ability (dyslexia)
- Disorders of numeracy (dyscalculia)
- Impaired writing ability (dysgraphia)
- Disorders of motor skills (dyspraxia)
- Language impairment (aphasia)
- Interference with visual auditory information processing
- ADHD
- What can parents do to help children who have learning difficulties?
Medical Video: Early Signs of a Learning Disability or Learning Disorder
The name of the children, naturally if occasionally having difficulty learning new things in his life. For example, learning to read and write. But if complaints of learning difficulties tend to be consistent and continue until the child grows up, there may be certain underlying medical conditions.
Why can someone experience learning difficulties?
Difficulty learningmore commonly found in childhood, but does not rule out the possibility can also be found in adults. This is because the condition has never been clinically evaluated before. Form difficulty learning the most common ones are related to problems of reading, writing, counting, thinking, listening, and language because the process of understanding each individual is different.
However, keep in mind that learning difficulties not related to the level of intelligence and / or low learning motivation. Someone who has learning difficulties generally have a normal or even higher level of intelligence and have the same opportunities to develop as other individuals. It's just that their brains work differently so that they capture and process information differently. Therefore, the process of teaching methods requires conformity with how he understands and learns things.
Sign learning disabilities can be different in each phase of life
Difficulty learning in children it will be very serious when it inhibits the learning process of the ability of new things during their growth and development because it will continue to have an impact to grow up. Here are some signs of learning difficulties which need to be considered:
Children under five years old
This includes difficulty in spelling and finding the right words, difficulties in distinguishing letters, shapes, colors, numbers, and days, and difficulty understanding commands and carrying out simple activities - such as wearing clothes or tying shoelaces.
Children aged 5-9 years
This is characterized by the difficulty of learning new things, being unable to read, disturbances in writing and spelling correctly, and having difficulty reading numbers on the clock.
Early adolescence (10-13 years)
This is characterized by difficulty understanding reading and counting, being unable to write neatly, difficulty expressing opinions and also low organizing skills (such as tidying up rooms, completing assignments, arranging study tables etc.)
Late teens and adults
Symptoms include difficulty reading, writing and speaking, difficulty drawing conclusions from reading or information, doing simple things too slowly, difficulty adapting to new environments and ability to remember too low.
Various forms of learning difficulties
Form of learning disorders can be distinguished based on a person's ability to learn during school, including:
Disorders of reading ability (dyslexia)
Dyslexia includes difficulties in basic reading skills and difficulties in understanding the relationship between sound, letters and words so that it can cause dyslexic sufferers to have difficulty understanding the ideas of sentences or paragraphs.
Disorders of numeracy (dyscalculia)
Dyscalculia is a type of learning disorder that affects a person's ability to speak, visual, sort, brain memory skills and organizing. The most common sign of this disorder is the difficulty of basic and simple calculations and difficulty in reading numbers on the clock.
Impaired writing ability (dysgraphia)
Dysgraphia can be caused by physical difficulties in writing letters and numbers (in a literal sense: difficulty writing), or it can also be a difficulty in expressing thoughts in written form. Writing disorder is characterized by the form of handwriting that is not neat, writing and spelling are inconsistent, and there is no continuity between sentences in writing (the sound of the sentence is not logical).
In addition to the ability categories taught in schools, learning disorders can also be:
Disorders of motor skills (dyspraxia)
Disorders of motor skills in the form of brain, eye and limb muscle coordination disorders to carry out activities that require communication such as running, jumping and cutting.
Language impairment (aphasia)
Aphasia is a difficulty in understanding the language spoken and related to the ability to retell what has been said, as well as barriers to proficiency in saying and the ability to understand words, sentences, or directions.
Interference with visual auditory information processing
This disorder occurs because the brain has difficulty processing information that is received by the ears and eyes. Interference in the auditory process involves a person's ability to distinguish sounds or pronounce words with other sounds. While the disturbance of the visual process involves the ability to distinguish shapes, numbers and letters, detect depth and distance or interference with eye coordination with the hand.
ADHD
Although ADHD is not a disorder that prevents a person from carrying out the process of thinking and learning, ADHD is a disorder that decreases a person's ability to stay focused and pay attention to something. ADHD can also be found in someone who has had a learning disruption first, which worsens his condition.
What can parents do to help children who have learning difficulties?
The first and most important thing to do to quickly overcome this learning disorder is to detect it early. Parents can observe the behavior patterns and habits of children when learning to be able to find out the type of disorder they experience so that the delay in the learning process can be overcome.
Difficulty learningbasically it cannot be eliminated but with deep assistance to understand the process of thinking and learning new things, the limitations faced can be overcome. Recognizing and overcoming learning disorders requires gradual steps and professional support from a child psychologist or child education therapist.
