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Unit 17 : Identification: Causes, Problems of Learning Disabilities

• The LD children face marries problems. Notes
• The mild learning disabled face problems in learning basic academic skills.
• The severe learning disabled have a severe d discrepancy between achievement and intellectual
ability.
• There also are secondary problems like emotional and social maladjustment wills the basic
skills. Attention disorders, memory problems, reading problems writing disability,
communication disability and problems in numerical ability are the important problems of
learning disability.

17.7 Keywords
• Remediation : The process of aimed at solving a problem.
• Diagnosis : Connected with identifying something specially an illness.
• Systematic : Done according to a system or plan.

17.8 Review Questions

1. What are the diagnosis of LD children?
2. Write about the memory problem of LD.
3. Give the notes on Reading disability and writing disability.
4. What are the remediation of LD children?
5. What are the identification of learning disabled children?
Answers: Self Assessment
1. (i) difficulty (ii) excessive (iii) deficient (iv) handicapped
(v) rural
2. (i) (a) (ii) (b) (iii) (c) (iv) (c)

17.9 Further Readings

1. ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children Reston VA: Visually
handicapped: Requires special educational provisions because of ... as lighting, use of
optical aids and devices, tasks, and personal characteristics.
2. Special Education : Laura Rothstein; Scott F.Johnson; Sage Publisher, Inc.
3. Special Education: Daniel P. Hallahan, James M. Kauffman, Paige C. Pullen; Pearson
Education, Inc.

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