Learning Disability

Introduction Learning disabilities refer to the ability to express attention, memory, understanding, reasoning, expression, perception, or perceptual action coordination due to abnormal neuropsychological function, so that there are significant problems in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and counting. For those who are in difficulty, the obstacles are not directly caused by environmental factors such as sensory, intelligence, emotional factors or cultural stimuli, improper teaching, etc., and any ability such as reasoning or perceptual action coordination is significantly difficult, and is determined after evaluation. The general education and education provided by the school has no significant effect.

Cause

The main reason that affects learning disabilities

1. Parents' late marriage and late childbearing: This phenomenon is very common among intellectuals. In the intellectual population, most of them are married late and late because of the pressure of study and work. And lack of physical activity and exercise, poor physical fitness.

2, caused by illness: some children gradually manifested after a serious illness. In particular, fever, convulsions, and the production of nerve tissue in the brain.

an examination

Related inspection

EEG examination

Examination and diagnosis of learning disabilities

(1) Medical diagnosis: understanding the child's growth and development history, medical history, family history, and conducting neurological, ophthalmological and otological examinations to diagnose the causes of learning disabilities.

(b) Psychological diagnosis: Use the psychological test scale to make an appropriate assessment of the child. Commonly used measurement tools include the Illinois Psychology Language Proficiency Test, the Charlottes Visual Perception Development Test, the Vocabulary Development Test, and the Intelligence Scale.

(3) Educational diagnosis: It is mainly to understand the obstacles that children have in their academic studies, such as low overall academic ability or difficulty in reading, writing, and counting. Kirk pointed out that the diagnostic methods for learning disabilities in preschool and school-age children are different.

Differential diagnosis

Identification standard

(i) Inconsistent learning disabilities in developing children show differences within individuals in the field of development or academics. Children with developmental learning disabilities may have wide variations in language, socialization, memory, and visual-motor skills. Children with academic disability are characterized by the gap between ability and actual achievement.

(2) Exclusion criteria: Children with learning disabilities do not include learning difficulties caused by mental retardation, hearing or visual impairments, and emotional loss of learning opportunities.

(3) Special Education Standards: Those children who are left behind due to loss of learning opportunities can progress through the common teaching methods corresponding to their achievements. They do not need special education services. This standard is not only a basis for identifying children with learning disabilities, but also an important basis for determining how to help them. Ignoring this standard, learning disabilities are just a label.

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