Thursday, March 5, 2009

WHAT IS A LEARNING DISABILITY?

This definition will help you not to have preconceived notions of students considered to have learning disabilities. Do not get into the trap of labelling. You could be come part of the problem.

Learning disability

In the United States and Canada, the terms learning disability, learning disabilities, and learning disorders (LD) refer to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason and organize information.

A learning disability is not indicative of low intelligence.

Indeed, research indicates that some people with learning disabilities may have average or above-average intelligence.

Causes of learning disabilities include a deficit in the brain that affects the processing of information.

2 comments:

  1. how we can link the word in our blog to other website to have more information ??

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  2. This topic is quite interesting to me. I want to share my opinion about it. Apart from a deficit in the brain, the childs' surroundings also can cause this problem. Why do i say so? Imagine that if a child disregards by the other children, this can give a big bad effect to the child especially in loosing his study mood in addition his interaction with other people. The child can be more quite and emotional. So, for me this can be the factor of learning disability..that's all..tq^^

    ~pprpbm_ipsm09/victoria

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