“Common Learning Disoder/pathologies: Schools and other learning Centres Situation”

In the last lesson we talked at length about what pathology is all about, thus today, we might not be talking much about the meaning of the word. Instead we go straight to considering the various learning disoders and pathologies associated with children learning conveniently in the school and other known learning centres. Learning centres can be a formal and an informal centre. The usual school will be a formal centre, while the Sunday school or the arabic school they attend in the evening would be classed under the informal school setting, where the tutor teaching them might not have any certification or expertise whatsoever in education. It is generally expected of parents not to neglect the child in his or her struggling world, or to leave the child at the mercy of the teacher, thus he or she lives only by what he or she was able to get from the teacher. In this case if the teacher is bad or substandard in any way the child emulate and eventually live this through the teacher.

Parents understand the deficit of a child, no matter how innate, than the teacher, and are in a prime position to positively deal with this as regard the child’s education. Some simple pathologies that may affect a child’s learning ability in the class are;

1. Attention-deficit-hyper-active disorder; In this case, the child is active beyond the ordinary expectation, and can be seen jumping around mostly without any reasonable or visible cause.
2. Dyscalculia; In this case, the child is seen extra-ordinarily battling with mathematics or any such arithmetic problems in the class.
3. Dysgraphia; a child in this situation is seen to be having a difficulty writing. He can be seen forming wrong sentences in spite of what taught in the class and also having trouble gathering his or her thoughts on paper.
4. Dyspraxia; a child in this pathological situation is seen to be having problems in the motor skills; such things as eating, writing, knotting, colouring etc are problematic to him or her.
5. Dyslexia; The child here is seen to be having problems in word pronunciation and the sounding of letters for example words like “POT” can become “TOP” to them.

And no matter how difficult a child in this situation(s) is, a parent, teacher or any adult around must never be seen making jest of such a child. Children in most cases will naturally out-grow these pathologies eventually with the corrective assistance of the parent or paediatrist in charge of the child. While those that live through it to their adolescence will thrive better when they have understanding adults around them, thus they are tutored alongside these defects, which they mastered and positively could turn around. There are cases of children suffering from some of these defects up to their adolescence and have successfully ingrained them to a point of invincibility and invisibility.

Thanks you.

Samuel Solomon O.

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