Learning This Ability!

Learning disability or learning this ability?
What I mean by this is, a child who has learning difficulties may encounter difficulty in acquiring skills related to reading, writing, spelling, math or all of these but the child may be flourishing in other areas where academic learning is not concerned.
Hence I would rather call this difficulty as "learning this ability" since it is confined to a specific problem in academic area.

In some children, we may witness problems in behavior also such as throwing temper tantrums, being violent or socially withdrawn, hitting self or others, banging head onto the wall or floor and so on..but such behavioral problems can be dealt with various behavior modification strategies with the help of a psychologist or a special educator.

In regard to my earlier statement in this post, "learning this ability", I shall discuss briefly about a few basic remedial strategies in various areas of difficulties that a child with learning disability usually has.

Remedial Techniques:

The core problem in children with learning problems is the lack of phonological awareness.
I strongly feel remedial program should start with teaching phonological processing (letter sounds and their pronounciation in words) for lack of phonological awareness leads to problems in decoding and thus resulting in poor reading.
To start with, individual letters and their sounds has to be taught.
For example; letter a says ah, letter b says ba, letter c says ka and so on...
Confusion may creep up when the child has to learn the sounnd of the letter 'k' as it sounds similar to that of the letter 'c'. So for letter 'k', we say its sound is kicking ka.

More on remedial techniques to be dealt in subsequent posts...