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Learning Disability |
| Learning disability is not a type of disability, but rather a group of impairments that share the similarity of affecting a child's normal learning ability. A person with only learning disability has normal intellect. The following are examples of learning disability: |
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Dyslexia |
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Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that affects people to different degree. Common problems of dyslexia are slowness at acquiring spoken language and difficulties with speech, difficulty in processing information and poor working memory etc. |
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Dyspraxia, or Developmental Verbal Apraxia (DVA) or Developmental Apraxia of Speech (DAS): |
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Dyspraxia is a speech disorder that interferes with a child's ability to correctlypronounce sounds, syllables and words. It is the loss of ability to consistently position the articulators (face, tongue, lips, jaw) for the production of speech sounds and for sequencing those sounds into syllables or words. Generally, there is nothing wrong with the muscles themselves. The child does not have difficulty with non-speech activities performed with the muscles such as coughing, chewing or swallowing. However, the area of the brain that tells the muscles how to move and what to do to make a particular sound or series of sounds is damaged or not fully developed. This makes retrieving the "motor plan" for saying a word difficult. |
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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): |
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ADD is a syndrome which is usually characterised by serious and persistent difficulties resulting in poor attention span, weak impulse control etc. ADHD is a sub-type of ADD, which includes hyperactivity. |
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