Different Types of Learners with Learning Disabilities ( Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia)
Channel: Quisay, Vicente Jr. M.
Date: 2023-03-04

This Video presentation is for educational purposes only. The pictures/images used in this presentation belongs to their rightful owners. NO COPYRIGHT INFRENGEMENTED IN THIS VIDEO. 

• Define specific learning disabilities in the content areas of reading, math, writing, and the processing disorders that affect them.
• Differentiate the learners with learning disabilities.
• Give examples of what the best practices are to improve the learning environment for learning disabled students.


Today, I will give a general overview of what learning disabilities are and what there are not. Now, there seems to be a lot of confusion about what learning disabilities really are? and so my goal today is to help clear some of those things up. in fact, I've decided to do a series on the different types of learning disabilities where I will go into more detail on each type but today, we're just going to start with a brief overview of what they are? and what they are not? Before I go into details about what learning disabilities are I would like to tell you what they are not so many people get learning disabilities confused with learning problems, there is a big difference! learning disabilities is not the result of hearing and vision problems. Those things can impact one's learning, but those things do not cause one to have a learning disability. learning disability is not the result of autism, learning disabilities is not the result of having an intellectual disability. What we formerly known as mental retardation. learning disabilities are not emotional disturbances. And learning disabilities is not the result of some type of disadvantage whether it's culturally, whether it is economically, or whether it's a child who has not had the opportunity to receive an education. Those things do not constitute one with a learning disability. Federal regulation refers to learning disabilities as a specific learning disability and it comprises several different disorders that are all individual and unique within themselves and I think that's kind of where a lot of the confusion comes from. What we say if somebody has a specific learning disability? What does that mean? Well, let's go over the definition of what a specific learning disability really is. The individuals with Disabilities Education Act provides that specific learning disability means a disorder and one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken, or written which disorder may manifest itself. In the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations under the specific learning disability umbrella.