Smart Children with Learning Disabilities

Smart Children with Learning Disabilities:

If your child is not doing well in school as they should or as they have the potential to they may be having a learning disability. Paying attention to what these children do is crucial.

A learning disability means having a normal intelligence but a problem in one or more areas of learning.

Learning disabilities can affect many areas:

§  Speech- Problem in listening and speaking.

§  Reading- Difficulties in decoding, recognising and understanding words.

§  Problems of writing, spelling and organising ideas.

§  Problems doing mathematics and understanding basic concepts.

§  Problem in reasoning and putting thoughts together.

§  Problems remembering facts and simple instructions.

§  They have problems socializing and making friends. Especially handling frustrations.

§  Problem In physical coordination example running , jumping, skipping, writing, clapping. Some have difficulties in Organization. Example time and order.

§  They also have problems in metacognition.

·         Bright Children with learning disabilities often have special talents in one of these

o   Performing Arts.

o   Visual arts.

o   Engineering.

o   Architecture.

·         Sadly these subjects are not valued in school the way reading and writing is.Hence making these children feel stupid.