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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Characteristics of Learning Difficulties

Have we heard many complaints from colleagues or parents of children who have scores below average or can not follow the lesson well? What is on our mind when hearing this? Initial allegation is usually possible low IQ or lazy.
Actually a lot of things that might happen to students if they have low academic achievement.
Almost every school has students who have difficulty learning. Various labels are often spoken to students who can not meet the standards desired by the teacher or school. Need we look further into what factors constrain them?
 

Factors learning difficulties are:
    the existence of barriers to learning physical, environmental, genetic, illness or family upbringing
    
learning methods that are less suitable to the needs of learning
    students a unique learning style 


Constraints above can be anticipated if we know the characteristics of learning difficulties experienced by students as follows: 


1. Disorders of visual perception:
    see the letters / numbers with different positions of the writing, so often reversed in rewriting
    often left behind a letter in writing
    write the word with the wrong order for example mother so sweet
    difficult to understand right and left
    confused to distinguish between objects with the background
    difficult to coordinate between the eyes (vision) with action (hands, feet, etc.) 


2. Auditory perceptual disorders
    
difficult to distinguish the sound: capture what he heard differently
    difficult to understand the command especially command given in large quantities and long sentences
    confused and messed with the sound coming from different directions making it difficult to follow the discussion because when you try to hear an informed voice was getting interference from other nearby
 

3. Language Disorders
    difficult to understand and comprehend a sentence that is said to him
    difficult to coordinate / say what he was thinking
 4. Disorders of perception-motor
    fine motor difficulties (difficult coloring, cutting, folding, sticking, writing neatly, cutting, etc.)
    have problems in coordination and disorientation that resulted in awkward and stiff in eraknya


5. Hyperactivity
    difficult to control motor activity and always moving / moves something (can not be silent)
    move from one task to the next task without finishing first
    impulsive 

6. Chaotic (distractibility)
    unable to distinguish the stimulus is important and not important
    irregular, because it has no precedence in the process of thinking
    attention is often different from what is being done (daydreaming while studying in class)
 If we find students who have the characteristics as above, then action needs to be done is:
    coordinate with parents to consult with a psychologist / therapist / doctor
    instructional strategies tailored to their needs change

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