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Special Education

Notes 4. Wechsler-Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised).
5. Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.
6. Peadody Picture Vocabulary Test.
7. Illinois test of Psychologistic Abilities.
8. Lincoln Oseretsky Motor Development Scale.
9. Vineland Social Maturity Scale.
10. Kauffman Assessment Battery for children.
11. Kauffman Test of Educational Assessment.
12. Wide Range Achievement Test.

17.5 Remediation of LD Children

The children with learning disability are benefited mostly from remedial instruction. Remedial
instruction. Remedial instruction is nothing but good teaching with two definite and specific objectives,
such as :
Eliminating ineffective habits and reteaching skills which have been incorrectly learned. This refers
to remediation of defects.
Teaching for the first time those habits, skills and behaviours which have never been learned but
should have been learned by the child to acquire academic skills. This refers to developmental teaching
or development of increased competencies.
Remedial instruction required proper diagnosis of a child’s abilities and disabilities in specific school
subjects, identifying skills and process which require remediation, and then providing him just good
teaching in areas of his weakness through systematic planning, individualised instruction, tutoring
in one-to-one or small group situation, evaluating his progress periodically and if necessary reteaching,
encouraging intensive drill, practice or repetition and modifying the programme and adopting
alternate materials and methods, using work-books, supplementary materials and multisensory
approach, most LD children improve their performance dramatically after exposure to remedial
instruction in resource rooms which seemed difficult in regular classroom settings.
Remedial instruction in the resource room can vary from one hour even day to a half-day’s programme
regularly depending upon deficiencies and the amount of traninng required. It is to be emphasized
that the sooner the remedial instruction starts in the elementary school the easier for the child to
compensate his deficiencies and the better for his later progress in upper classes.
17.6 Summary

• Identification of learning disabled children is a major aspect in providing education to these
children.
• They show symptoms like difficulty in telling time remembering the order of days, months and
seasons and mathematical tables, incorrectly recall oral in str5uctions shows excessive
inconsistency in the quality of performance etc.
• After identifying LD children teacher should see that children are assessed properly by expert
(doctor's psychologist).
• There are some causes of LD children:
(i) Organic causes: LD arises because of minimal brain dysfunction (MBD). The dysfunction
occurs in central nervous system which consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
(ii) Genetic Causes: Children with Turner's syndrome have higher incidence of learning
disabilities.
(iii) Environmental causes: Complications during pregnancy such as anoxia (loss of oxygen, birth
injury causing brain damage.

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