Specific Learning Disability

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Specific Learning Disability

Children with specific learning disability means those children who have a disorder in

one or more of the basic psychological process involved in understanding or in using

language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in ability to listen, think, speak,

read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations such disorder include conditions as

perceptual handicaps (is an in ability to focus on an object without having its

background or setting interfere with the perception), Brain injury (mental retarded,

emotional disturbed, autistic, aphasic or behavior all maladjusted), minimal brain

dysfunction (learning and behavioral disorder associated with deviations or dysfunctions of the

central nervous system), Dyslexia and developmental aphasia (the loss of the inability to

speak). A student that has a specific disability (1) the student does not achieve at the proper

age and ability levels in one or more of several specific areas when provided with appropriate

learning experiences the student has a severe discrepancy between achievement and

intellectual ability in one or more of these seven area (a) oral expression (b) listening

comprehension (c) written expression (d) basic reading (e) reading comprehension (f)

mathematical calculation and (g) mathematics reasoning. Learning can be categorized on four

stages of information processing deficits used in learning, input, integration, storage, and

output. Deficits in any area of information process can manifest in a variety of specific learning

disabilities. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability. A reading disability can affect any

part of the reading process accurate or fluent word recognition, word decoding, reading rate,

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oral reading with expression and reading comprehension. Reading disorder, disability to break

up words into their component sound, difficulty with matching...