Other names: learning difficulties, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, specific learning disabilities

Learning disabilities have many causes. Generally, they can be defined as disorders that causeproblems in the educational process. Since the educational process domain of childhood, at least the obligatory and systematic part, are disorders evident especially during the period of compulsory schooling. Child’s parent or teacher should identify specific learning disability. Then it is advisable to consult with the school counselor and pediatrician.

There are plenty of conditions and diseases, which may in the educational process fatally hit. Of course a man blind, deaf, mentally retarded etc. will have a learning disorder that is related to his disability or illness. These children need a comprehensive, professional and highly individualized wide range of expertise – a special education teacher, educator, speech therapist, psychologist etc.

A parent should keep in mind that the child’s brain is very plastic, and that a lot of the therapy to cope. Child with a learning disability is often mocked or even bullying in the class, which give rise in some cases severe psychological problems.

In addition to general learning disabilities also we recognize specific learning disabilities. These disorders are caused by alterations in development, vision, hearing, and are not affected by the residence of the child in an environment that is deprivation in terms of lack of appropriate incentives for the development of the child. We can say that these diseases are caused by the deficiency of intelligence quotient, as a number of brilliant scientists with above-average IQ, suffered or suffer from specific learning disorder.

The most common of these is dyslexia. Dyslexia is the inability to learn to read written text by conventional methods. Dyslexic may have problems what to read, understand, while they need not have low IQ. Child at school has big problems with reading (of course there are many children who are learning to read very difficult and slow, taking about any specific learning disability does not), the text poorly understood and can not work with text.

Another example is a specific learning disability dysgraphia – the child has a problem writing – badly he learns and describe the letters, writing longer text it’s very difficult. Scripture is in many cases almost unreadable.

Dyscalculia is a problem with counting and work with mathematical symbols – but becomes very bad marks in mathematics, the child may appear much effort. Such faults we could find a wide range.

Learning disabilities may also be linked to hyperactivity in children with ADHD, cerebral palsy and the like. Generally, parents should monitor the process of education and any suspected malfunction should consult with a teacher or other staff.