presentation for teachers on learning disability in children at kvm school

1. OBJECTIVE
To empower and equip the teachers with
skills to deal with learning disabled
children.

2. •Knowledge
•Feeling
•Skill
•Own effort

3. • Learning disability is the
difficulty in learning that involves
understanding or using spoken or
written language.
• This difficulty can be in listening,
thinking, reading, writing,
arithmetic and spelling.

4. • May have trouble
connecting letters to their
sounds.
• May make many mistakes
when reading aloud and
repeat and pause often.
• May have real trouble with
spelling.
• May learn language late
and have a limited
vocabulary.

5. • May have trouble organizing what he
or she wants to say or not able to
think of the word he or she needs for
writing or conversation.
• May not be able to retell a story in
order.
• May not know where to begin a task
or how to go on from there.
• May lack control over body
movements.

6. • May not follow the social rules of
conversation such as taking turns and
may stand too close to the listener.
• May have very messy handwriting or
hold a pencil awkwardly.
• May struggle to express ideas in
writing.

7. • May confuse math symbols
and misread numbers.
• May have trouble following
directions.

8. COMMON TYPES OF LEARNING DISABILITIES
Dyslexia Difficulty processing Problems reading, writing,
language spelling, speaking
Dyscalculia Difficulty with math Problems doing math
problems, understanding
time, using money
Dysgraphia Difficulty with writing Problems with handwriting,
spelling, organizing ideas
Dyspraxia (Sensory) Difficulty with fine motor Problems with hand-eye
Integration Disorder skills coordination, balance,
manual dexterity
Auditory Processing Disorder Difficulty hearing differences Problems with reading,
between sounds comprehension, language
Visual Processing Disorder Difficulty interpreting visual Problems with reading,
information math, maps, charts, symbols,
pictures

9. Take the needs of the child with a learning
disability into account while teaching.
• State objective clearly
• Use visuals
• Clear directions
• Concrete examples
Make modifications in testing
and assignments.
• Accept oral reports
• Read instructions and questions to them
• Highlight important words
• Give more time
• Conduct tests for smaller parts

10. • Let the student with listening difficulties
borrow notes from classmates or allow
them to use a tape recorder.
• Let the student with writing difficulties use
special softwares like word processors for
assignments and accept the errors while he
writes.
• Let the student with reading problems read
slowly and give them advance notice.
Advice them to use textbooks on tapes.
• Help improve the organisational skills by
guiding the child to keep a calender and a
to do list.

12. • People with learning disability often
excel in their chosen field.
• Learning disabled children can and do
learn but differently