What are the learning problems and how to deal with them? - General education
To detect learning problems it is necessary to determine several points that are key and not always addressed. Adults need these key points to infer or detect possible learning problems.
A learning problem is seen or noticed in children who are preschoolers, this means, therefore, that it will be something that will be noticed in children who are in primary school; In general, the learning problems are not detected in the preschool age, since children are acquiring skills that will be necessary to acquire different skills that will be part of the growth process and that will gradually develop in later years.
How are learning problems detected?
Learning problems will be detected more or less in children who are seven (07) years of age and older, because children are supposed to have acquired the following:
Literacy.
Mathematical operations.
That is to say, it is understood that they already have all the precursors and the necessary skills for the different learnings.
What are the main learning problems that are going to be detected?
Children with reading problems.
Children with writing problems.
Children with problems in mathematical operations.
Children who have problems in executive functions or basic connectors of learning.
Problems in various functions.
There are even more specific problems, which consequently are more or less in broad strokes, these are the most common.
Ways to determine:
As for writing you can have the mixture of children who have reading and writing problems, or simply have a problem in either of them.
At the level of writing the children will not be able to make a good copy, a good dictation, they tend to confuse letters, they do not have a good organization of the space.
Regarding reading, they have problems, in a fluent reading, readings where lines and / or words are skipped, they do not have a good understanding of the reading they are reading.
Typically, children tend to read a bit more immature, compared to their classmates.
In math skills, you can observe children who have problems since the acquisition of the concept of numbers. That is to say, they still do not have in themselves, that correspondence between the quantities, the sequence of the numbers, among others. There will be children with many problems regarding addition, subtraction and, of course, multiplication and division.
Problems in children will vary; The problems of executive function or the basic connectors of learning are cognitive skills, which develop from childhood to adolescence and serve for proper learning.
In executive functions, failures will be seen in: planning, analysis, organization of information, working memory, among many other executive functions that help to know what to do with any information.
Regarding the basic connectors of learning can be found: attention, memory, motivation, among others. Where in this segment, cognitive skills are essential for proper learning.
It is important to make a global evaluation of learning, to see where the faults are located and why they are located in the child, to determine the occurrence that affects the child and does not allow him to learn as he should.
All the failures mentioned can cause poor school performance, frustration and the fact is that these problems cause a real difficulty for children.
How are learning problems verified?
Before thinking about any problem related to learning, it is necessary to verify two aspects of importance that can interfere with correct learning:
There must be a good vision.
There must be a good hearing of the ear.
When you have a vision problem and it has not been detected, this is more likely to lead to poor school performance.
In the aspect of hearing, if the child does not listen well, he will not have a good answer and, of course, there will be a learning problem.
These two factors should be the first to be reviewed in a child, and then, later evaluations, which may correct the learning problems.
Greetings to educators and motivators of education; They perform the work that satisfies in quantity all the parties involved in the process.
Hello! I find your post valuable for the wafrica community! Thanks for the great post! We encourage and support quality contents and projects from the West African region.
Do you have a suggestion, concern or want to appear as a guest author on WAfrica, join our discord server and discuss with a member of our curation team.
Don't forget to join us every Sunday by 20:30GMT for our Sunday WAFRO party on our discord channel. Thank you.
Yes, early identification of learning difficulties is critical. Not only are basic skills acquired in early grades, but socialization is also affected by delayed learning. A child will be perceived by peers as different if skills lack, and also may acquire a poor self image if education lags.
I think the idea of checking eyesight and hearing is excellent. These are primary barriers. Often, though, learning style is the barrier. Educators should be aware of the wide variety of information processing styles among students. Addressing this will often lead to filling in the gaps.