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
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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.1.1002