How to know if your child has learning disabilities
Learning disabilities do not have to be a problem if they are detected and treated early, do you think that your child may have learning problems?
Have your child’s grades not been as good as you expected? Does the school teacher complain that your child does not give everything he should for learning? Perhaps the least correct option is to force your child to learn, because he may have other needs that should be taken into account before trying to get him to pass a subject in all possible ways.
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EACH CHILD HAS A DIFFERENT RHYTHM
Children learn at different speeds and have different interests and abilities to learn different subjects. In a typical class, you may see some children having a hard time learning to read correctly while other students gobble up later chapter books.
It’s even true for siblings: one child may love math games while another doesn’t like working with numbers. This is why it is important for parents to consider the individual differences of each child and try not to compare a child’s learning abilities with those of his siblings or classmates.
Today children are given educational content to learn that is more complicated than in previous decades. But it is necessary to take into account the capabilities of each child and their age group. For example, a 5-year-old child who does not master reading is normal, but a 10-year-old child who does not know how to understand a text is no longer so.
Depending on the school level in which a child is, they can be expected to achieve certain objectives taking into account their age, but it is also necessary for parents to be very aware of the real capacities of their children.
SIGNS THAT MAY INDICATE A SCHOOL LEARNING PROBLEM
While some learning problems may be detected in younger children, the most common age at which learning difficulties often begin to show up is when children enter Primary. This is when teachers and parents are most likely to notice problems such as a child having trouble holding a pencil correctly or working with numbers or learning to read. Some common signs of learning disabilities in school-age children include:
-Difficulty writing letters and numbers
-Difficulty copying shapes
-Problems to learn to mix letters together to pronounce words
-Problems to remember words at sight
-Difficulty spelling
-Problems with grammar
-Make the mirror effect in the letters after the second grade (confuse “b” and “d” or write “pen” instead of “pan”)
-Problems learning math and doing calculations
-Confuse mathematical signs (+, -, =, etc.)
-Difficulty organizing thoughts for written work
-Problems understanding and following spoken instructions
-Difficulty understanding concepts such as left / right, up / down and before / after
-Problems keeping track of school assignments or planning assignments and completing them
-Incapacity to sit still and concentrate; impulsive behavior
Large gap in a child’s expected IQ / academic ability in school and actual performance
If you notice these signs, your child may have learning problems and you will need to talk to the teacher or the school principal to find out what to do and how to properly address your child’s educational needs. You need to rule out other possibilities that you may not have thought about, such as vision problems, which may be affecting your child’s learning ability; Check your child’s eyes to make sure the problem isn’t something as simple as not being able to read correctly.
If your child is diagnosed with a learning disability , remember that the diagnosis itself is an important first step in finding strategies and solutions. With early intervention, your child will have a better chance of finding the help he needs to reach his full potential, whether it’s dyslexia , ADHD or dyscalculia (trouble doing math) or another learning disability.
He may also need emotional education so that he does not feel bad about himself, you will have to explain to him that learning disabilities happen because some people simply assimilate information and process information differently, without this having to be a bad thing.
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