DYSLEXIA - SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY Authors: Sivaprakasam V
ABSTRACT
Specific learning disability (SLD), dyslexia is a neuro-developmental and biological
disorder. Incidence is 5-15 %. An Intelligent child with normal or above normal IQ, child who
fails in a class, reads slowly - word by word, skips words, sentences ,hates reading is considered
to have dyslexia. Writing slowly, poor handwriting ,reversal tendency, lot of spelling and
grammar Mistakes labeled as dysgraphia. Poor in math is dyscalculia. Remedial teaching
remains the mainstay of management. Government is also giving lot of concessions in the
examinations. SLD is included in the disability act and poor children with dyslexia may get free
remedial teaching. We need to identify all children irrespective of financial status with SLD.
Keywords: Learning disability, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Remedial teaching Publication date: 1/1/21 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2021/January/MS_IJBPAS_2021_JAN_SPCL_1002.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.1.1002