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How can we identify students with learning disabilities?

Vidyadip · Accepted Answer

The students with learning disability have some common symptoms through which they can be identified.
These are as follows:

They have difficulty in reading and writing letters, words, phrases and speaking. They suffer from hearing problems without any auditory defect.
They have disorders of attention and get distracted easily leading to hyperactivity.
They have poor space orientation and inadequate sense of time. They also have difficulty in getting oriented to new surroundings and feel lost. They get confused in following directions and misjudge right, left, up and down.
These children have poor motor coordination and manual dexterity.
They are unable to understand and follow oral directions.
They misjudge relationships as to the classmates who are friendly and the ones who are not and are unable to comprehend various body languages.
They show perceptual disorders which includes visual, auditory, tactual and kinesthetic misperception.
Many learning disabled children suffer from dyslexia and fail to copy letters and words and do not learn to organize verbal materials.

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