Learning Disability
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Every time that the average student enters the classroom they hear other classmates saying negative comments about themselves. Such as, how they look, their intelligence, and their struggles with their body image. These students also start to worry about their grades, how they are performing in class, sports, or other activities they are involved in. However, what if you were learning disabled student? What would your worries be? Children with learning disabilities face more obstacles than the average student, in everyday classroom life.
In order to have an understanding of learning disabilities, it is important to understand what is actually meant by the term learning disability. According to Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, the three basic areas of learning disabilities are reading disorders (dyslexia), mathematic disorders (dyscalculia), and disorders of written expression (dysgraphia) (Ford-Martin, 1). Some deficits include language (oral expression, listening comprehension, pragmatics, memory, cognition, and metacogntion), social-emotional problems (social competence, learned helplessness, depression, and self image), attention deficit and hyperactivity, and motor skills and coordination. IDEA defines a learning disability as a "disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language spoken, or written, which disorder may manifest itself" (Turnbull et al, 104)...