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प्रश्न
How can we identify students with learning disabilities?
उत्तर
The students with learning disabilities have some common symptoms through which they can be identified. These are as follows:
(i) They have difficulty in reading and writing letters, words, phrases, and speaking. They suffer from hearing problems without any auditory defects.
(ii) They have disorders of attention and get distracted easily leading to hyperactivity.
(iii) They have poor space orientation and an inadequate sense of time. They also have difficulty in getting oriented to new surroundings and feel lost. They get confused in following directions and misjudge right, left, up, and down.
(iv) These children have poor motor coordination and manual dexterity.
(v) They are unable to understand and follow oral directions.
(vi) They misjudge relationships as to the classmates who are friendly and the ones who are not and are unable to comprehend various body languages.
(vii) They show perceptual disorders which include visual, auditory, tactual, and kinesthetic misperception.
(viii) Many learning disabled children suffer from dyslexia and fail to copy letters and words and do not learn to organise verbal materials.
