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Overview
What is Learning Disabilities
Intellectual Learning Disabilities
Key Characteristics of Intellectual Learning Disabilities
Down Syndrome
Key Characteristics of Child with Down Syndrome
Interventions
Interventions to develop inclusive learning environment
What is learning disability
It is a problem that impacts the ability of the brain to receive the information, comprehensively process as well as analyze and store information.
Disability in learning can imply a group of disorders that primarily affect vast range of functional as well as academic skills that involves the ability to
speak
listen
read
write
reason
organize the information
After the root cause analysis on LD and suspected etiologies it evident that there are no direct reason for child to have such LD. It can be causes by either one or all the causes mentioned below
Hereditary
Teratogenic
Medical
External Environment
According to NJCLD, a group of heterogenous disorders can be manifested from an individual difficulties in the acquisition. These disorders are completely intrinsic to person usually because of dysfunctions in Central Nervous System
Learning Disabilities may occur in combination with other disabling scenarios
Learning issues and disabilities are normally identified by the psychiatrists, clinal or school psychologists and neuropsychologists after combining various test and observation performed at social interaction level.
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Intellectual Learning Disability
Substantial subaverage intellectual functioning with IQ less than 70 or even lower
Intellectual Learning Disability are caused because of how the internal genes are formed in the body
These are group of disorders that have in common deficits of various intellectual and adaptive functions which are onset before the maturity is reached
Concurrent impairments or deficits in adaptive functioning in at least two or more following areas
Functional Academic Skills
Self-care and self-direction
Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Communication
Health and Safety
Intellectual disabilities (IDs) are very common especially in low and middle income countries (LAMIC)
In many cases IDs can be prevented
IDs pose a huge burden to affected families and society
Children with ID are often stigmatized and excluded. They may:
not be brought for vaccination/essential health care
be subject to harmful forms of traditional healing
be neglected or harshly treated by frustrated parents
Carers of children with ID may develop mental health problems
The lives of children with disabilities and of their families can be substantially improved through treatment and education
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Characteristics of Intellectual Learning Disabilities
This slide explains what are the different characteristics of learning disabilities. Child that has some form of learning disability – intellectual will display either some or combination of all these factors.
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Challenges in memorizing the facts
Problem in comprehending primary ideas
Diffculty in reading with very slow rate of...