Learning disability Learning disability is rather a set of impairments causing losses to a child's normal learning ability, than a type of disability. An individual with only learning disability has normal mental power. The following kinds of learning disability are recognized:
Dyslexia Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that wounds people to different extent. Familiar symptoms of dyslexia are lateness at learning to speak and speech problems, complexity in information processing, short memory and so forth.
Dyspraxia, or Developmental Verbal Apraxia (DVA) or Developmental Apraxia of Speech (DAS) Dyspraxia is disorder of speech that handicaps a child's capacity to pronounce sounds, syllables and words properly. It is the loss of ability to position in conformity with articulators (face, jaw, tongue, lips) for reproducing of speech sounds and for ordering those sounds into syllables or words. Generally, muscles are perfectly in order. The child has no problem with non-vocal activities carried out with coughing, masticatory or swallowing muscles. However, the area of the brain that informs the muscles how to move and what to do so as to render a particular sound or sequence of sounds is damaged or underdeveloped.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) ADD is a symptom complex which is usually characterized by serious and regular difficulties causing reduced attention span, weak impulse control and so on. ADHD is a sub-type of ADD, which contains hyperactivity. 1. Mainstream Education Children diagnosed with mild learning disability can attend mainstream schools (from primary right up to tertiary level), so long as the schools have staff to aid them in their studies, and these students can cope with mainstream curriculum. 2. Tuition and Integration Programs Tuition and Integration Programs help students keep up with their mainstream school curriculum as well as assist them in integrating into the mainstream school environment. 3. Schools for children with profound learning disability Tuition and Integration Programs help students keep up with their mainstream school curriculum as well as assist them in integrating into the mainstream school environment.
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