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OTCS 2213
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
DEFINITION LD
• A disorder affecting a person’s ability to
interpret visual and auditory stimuli and to
DEFINITION integrate information processed by the brain.
Cont… Cont…
• LD is not a single disorder. It is a term that refers to
• Neurological disorder that affects the brain's
a group of disorders that affect a child’s ability to
ability to receive, process, store and respond to
master school tasks, process information and
information. communicate effectively
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TYPES:
2) Integration
1) Input • Difficulties to interprets, categorizes, place in a
sequence, or relates the input to previous learning.
• This is the information perceived through the senses,
such as visual and auditory perception.
• Students with problems in these areas may be:
• Difficulties with visual perception – unable to tell a story in the correct sequence
• can cause problems with recognizing the shape, – unable to memorize sequences of information
position and size of items seen. such as the days of the week
– able to understand a new concept but unable to
• Difficulties with auditory perception generalize it to other areas of learning
• difficult to screen out competing sounds in order to
focus on one of them, such as the sound of the
teacher's voice.
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3) Storage 4) Output
• Problems with memory can occur with short- • Information comes out of the brain either through
term/working memory, or with long-term memory. words, that is, language output, or through muscle
activity, such as gesturing, writing or drawing.
• Most memory difficulties occur in the area of short-
term memory, which can make it difficult to learn • Difficulties with language output can create
new material without many more repetitions than problems with spoken language, for example:
is usual. • answering a question on demand, in which one
must retrieve information from storage
• Difficulties with visual memory can impede organize the thoughts put the thoughts into
learning to spell. words before we speak.
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DYSCALCULIA
Delay in counting. Less understanding of basic
• A math disability can cause such difficulties as counting principles than their peers.
learning math concepts (such as quantity, place Delay in using counting strategies for addition. Dyscalculic
value, and time). children tend to keep using inefficient strategies for
calculating addition facts much longer than their peers.
Difficulties in memorizing arithmetic facts. Dyscalculic
• Difficulty memorizing math facts, difficulty children have great difficulty in memorizing simple
organizing numbers, and understanding how addition, subtraction and multiplication facts (eg. 5 + 4 =
problems are organized on the page. 9), and this difficulty persists up to at least the age of
thirteen.
Lack of “number sense”. Dyscalculic children may have a
fundamental difficulty in understanding quantity .
comparing two numbers (which is bigger, 7 or 9?.
DYSCALCULIA
Particular difficulty with subtraction.
DYSCALCULIA
Difficulty using finger counting (slow, inaccurate,
unable to immediately recognise finger
configurations
Difficulty decomposing numbers (e.g.
recognizing that 10 is made up of 4 and 6
Anxiety about or negative attitude towards
maths (caused by the dyscalculia.
Trouble learning and understanding reasoning
methods and multi-step calculation procedures.
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DYSCALCULIA Example :
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ???
???
• Examples:
1+2 =????
• Examples: 12 23
+ 8 + 17
110 310
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• Behavioral Factors
• Cognitive Factors
Jaimmie Oliver
Jim Carrey Tom Cruise Steven Spielberg ADHD with
ADHD with LD Dyslexia Dyslexia Dyslexia