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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:
1.  Speech- Problem in listening and speaking.
2.  Reading- Difficulties in decoding, recognising and understanding words.
3. Problems of writing, spelling and organising ideas.
4. Problems doing mathematics and understanding basic concepts. 
5.  Problem in reasoning and putting thoughts together. 
6.  Problems remembering facts and simple instructions.
7.  They have problems socializing and making friends. Especially handling frustrations.
8.  Problem In physical coordination example running , jumping, skipping, writing, clapping. Some have difficulties in Organization. Example time and order.
9.  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.
What Tuleane Afrika Initiative Foundation does is
o   Nature and honour their Talent and strength: we take charge of their. It is important to us not to put their talent on hold till they catch up with the academics. Some children are slow in the beginning of their school years then catch up as they proceed. At these points they go back to the mainstream classes and continue with their academics. While others are purely vocational. We assist them in their gifts and nature them.
o   We work on their compensation strategy eg using calculators, books on tape, computers and other Intensive use of technologies craft Silicon.
o   Provide a social and Emotional support.
o   We ensure the right environment:
o   We help these gifted children help themselves, By teaching them met skills and self-management. Tuleane Afrika Teaches them how to cope with difficulties they may face in life and lead them through problem solving sessions.
o   Provide counselling support
Some of the world success stories of people with learning disabilities include:
-  Walt Disney- He is known to have struggled with learning disabilities.
-Albert Ainstein
-  Thomas Edison
- Tommy Hilfigure- Designer 
Billy Banks-World class martial arts artist
-  Whoopi Goldberg- Actress
-  Nelson Rockafeller-Vice president

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