learning difficulties
Learning difficulties are one of the challenges and obstacles to the educational process of children, so that the child has difficulty in any of the processes associated with education such as reading, writing, spelling, comprehension, thinking, cognition, attention, pronunciation, arithmetic, or any Of the skills associated with the above. Learning disabilities include children with mental, physical, mental or emotional disabilities, or those with hearing and visual impairment. However, disability should not be the main cause of learning difficulties. , And there are some indicators and signs that appear on children with learning disabilities, as follows:
Signs of learning difficulties
Before completing the four-year-old child,
- He has difficulty pronouncing words.
- Difficult to keep it in one tone during singing or singing.
- The child faces many obstacles when learning letters, numbers, weekdays, colors, and shapes.
- Having difficulties in understanding and tracking trends, also has trouble following the routine.
- The child has difficulty holding the pen, chalk or scissors, and there are difficulties in dealing with the straps of his shoes or the buttons of his clothes.
The child between the four and nine years of age is noted as:
- He suffers from difficulties in tying letters and their pronunciation.
- He has difficulty tying letters together to form a word.
- Not to distinguish it from the words it reads, so as to confuse them.
- There are persistent errors in spelling, and he is not good at reading well.
- The child faces many obstacles in learning the basic concepts of the account, most notably the addition and subtraction.
- Has difficulty determining the time and remember the order of parts of the day and hour.
- Do not learn new skills quickly.
From the age of 9 to 15, the child:
- He suffers from many difficulties while reading texts and conducting calculations.
- The child feels that it is difficult for him to answer those questions that need to be written.
- The child avoids reading and writing.
- Note that the child writes the word in more than one way in the same subject.
- His order and organization are very poor.
- Does not merge into any of the discussions and does not express his ideas.
- Bad plan.
Methods of treatment of learning difficulties
As for the treatment of learning difficulties, it is as follows:
- Parents should be more understanding and rational about their child’s problem and not expose their child to any stress or stress. Parents can help the school find remedial programs for their children without any stress or stress.
- Develop a special educational program for the child, depending on the type of difficulty he or she suffers from, but it should be under the supervision of the psychologist, the teacher and the family.
- The child’s condition must be diagnosed as soon as possible to determine if he or she has difficulties or not. The diagnosis process should be supervised by psychologists.
- There should always be coordination and cooperation between the school and the family, and the remedial program must be comprehensive for all educational aspects.