4 Ways to Recognize a Learning Disability

There are different ways to identify learning disabilities and how to overcome them. Dr. Alka Kalra explains the different learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia – recognizing these at an early age helps to overcome them.

Children with learning disabilities have brilliant brains, but their way of learning and understanding differs from everyone else. We need to recognize this and help them learn by using different techniques like text-to-picture learning. For these kids, everything is a picture, hence the recommended strategy. They have the potential to become successful, all they need is support and encouragement from adults.

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hi i’m Dr. Alka Kalra an educational
psychologist licensed by community
development authority and my passion is
to work with children with various
challenges in life and ensure that they
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difficulties names are complicated
dyslexia dyspraxia dyscalculia
dysgraphia what are these names and what
do they stand for dyslexia is children
who have challenges and reading spelling
etc dyscalculia the kids who face
various challenges in maths and actually
basic competition is a big challenge
dysgraphia are the kids who who face
difficulties in writing they have poor
handwriting and dyspraxia is the
children who have motor challenges and
all these exists in the 5 percentage of
a regular school population they vary on
a continuum from mild moderate severe to
profoundly impacted teachers and parents
play a very very significant role in
their life if they are diagnosed
identified in early years early
intervention is the best strategy but a
lot of them who are mildly impacted or
who are on the borderline are even
ignored and parents have a big time
denial for it
my dear friends I would like to tell you
one thing here that these children have
brilliant brain but this brain is a bit
different the way he see things this
brain see picture thinking everything is
picture so they are grasshoppers not the
inchworm they take bigger leaps they
have solutions in hand but the elders in
their psychosocial ambience doubt that
how can they have a Max answer without
even doing the basic computation they
have very bright brain and encourage
them support them so that they are able
to perform in life and be successful in
life gone is the era when we believe
that if a child is born dyslexic stays
dyslexic today is the era of not
remedial but Correction for lifetime and
believe it I am saying correcting a
child with dyslexia dyspraxia
dyscalculia dysgraphia for lifetime
that’s simple it is because as these
children see things in pictures we
create the text in pictures for them and
then everything is a cakewalk life
becomes so much more easier and actually
the challenge is only during the school
time because writing is challenging talk
to him and get the verbal responses they
know it all but you as a teacher often
get surprised because you find that
they’re not producing it during the time
of examination they’re very creative
very underrated everything is up there
but it’s not there in the answer sheets
and if you want to learn dyslexia
correction for lifetime is the solution
convert things into pictures and see
that brilliant results on papers thank
you very much