Learning Disability

By Pady N
Every one has a problem or difficulty in learning. For some, this difficulty is a disorder of the brain. The brain, being a very small, yet, complex structure of our body, sometimes processes the information it receives in a different way. Learning disability is a problem which affects the brain's ability to process the information

it receives. There are many kinds of learning problem such as talking, reading, writing. Just because one has a trouble in understanding the subjects doesn't necessarily mean that they are down with a learning disability. It should not be confused with difficulty in understanding a subject or topic.

Not many kids are diagnosed with a learning disability at the very beginning. We can hardly find out by the looks of a person if he/she is suffering from any. We identify that there is a problem only when the child is not able to follow the writing, unable to grasp the meaning of the words spoken, unable to write as a child of his/her age group is expected to.

A child with a learning disability doesn't mean that the child will never be able to learn anything. We just need to change our approach while teaching a child. We cannot expect the child to follow all that we teach. We need to set aside sometime from our schedule to tutor the child. You can start teaching the child various games to improve vocabulary, some signs and boards to help the child to learn the words...

We can find that some of the successful people we admire and adore, had a learning disability at some point of time in their life. One such example is Albert Einstein. He was weak in math as a child and became one of the greatest mathematicians. Other famous people, Da Vinci, Edison, Tom Cruise, who we know today to have excelled in their career, had a learning disability. This didn't stop them from succeeding in this world, where normal is the word of life.