Learning Disabilities and Desorders

During the workshop, I learned about what  aggressivity in children is. As well, I increased my knowledges about Attention Deficit Desorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Desorder (ADHD)  their characteristics and causes. I also learned how to identify some symtoms about different desorders. There are activities and techniques that we as teachers can integrate into the classroom if we have a students with a deficit or desorder.

We will start by defining what aggressivity in children is.

Aggressive behavior is behavior that causes physical or emotional harm to others, or threatens to. It can range from verbal abuse to the destruction of a victim’s personal property. Children with aggressive behavior tend to be irritable, impulsive, and restless. Emotional problems are the most common cause of aggressive behavior.

A variety of factors can influence aggressive behavior, including:

• Family structure
• Emotional problems (frustration)
• Relationships with others
• School environmen
• Individual characteristics.

Types of aggressivity in children can be:

• Psychological
• Physical
• Verbal
• Social

Due to children behave in such as different ways, there are some strategies that we teachers can to apply in order to manage aggressive behaviors in the classroom.

•  Establish coexistence rules and limits in the classroom.
• Teach values: plays, presentations with puppets, games, songs, etc.
• In case of a conflict in the classroom, teacher have to respond inmediately.

It’s normal for children to occasionally forget their homework, act without thinking, forget to follow rules and instructions. But inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity are also signs of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD), which can affect your child’s ability to learn and get along with others. The first step to addressing the problem is to recognize the signs and symptoms.

Learning Disabilities

Learning disabilities are neurologically-based processing problems. These processing problems can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing and/or math.  They can also interfere with higher level skills such as organization, time planning, abstract reasoning, long or short term memory and attention.  It is important to realize that learning disabilities can affect an individual’s life beyond academics and can impact relationships with familyand friends. Since difficulties with reading, writing and/or math are recognizable problems during the school years, the signs and symptoms of learning disabilities are most often diagnosed during that time. However, teacher have to take into acccount that learning disabilities should not be confused with learning problems which are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps; of mental retardation; of emotional issues. Teachers play an important role in the classroom when teaching children with learning disabilities for the reason that children need to feel part of a learning environment.

Types of Leaning Disabilities

• Auditory Processing Disorder
• Dyscalculia
• Dysgraphia
• Dyslexia
• Language Processing Disorder

Learning difficulties

A learning difficulty is a desorder which does not affect general intelligence (IQ). Somethin important is that this kind of difficulties have cure or treatment in contrast to learning disabilities.

 

Some examples of specific learning difficulties are:

• Dyspraxia
• Dyslexia
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Desorder (ADHD)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that appears in early childhood. ADD/ADHD makes it difficult for people, specially to children to inhibit their spontaneous responses. Responses which can involve everything from movement to speech to attentiveness. Sometimes these children are labeled as “troublemakers”, or criticized for being lazy and undisciplined. However, they may have ADD/ADHD.

 

Children ADHD may be:

• Inattentive
• Hyperactive

• Inattentive

In order to teachers recognize if a learner propably is getting prblems when learning there are some symtoms to take into account to pay important attention to children :

 

• having a short attention span and being easily distracted
• appearing forgetful or losing things
• appearing to be unable to listen to or carry out instruction
• constantly changing activity or task without finish an specific task
• being unable to sit still, especially in calm or quiet surroundings
• excessive physical movement
• excessive talking

 

Even though a children have a desorder, there are different strategies teacher can use to help our students to feel part of the larning process:

 

• Curricular acommodation

• Create checklist, cards or stickers.
• Put a clock in order to manage time for choldren on developing different tasks or activities
• Motivate the children to follow instructions in an interactive way.

To summarize, it is really important for us to know what aggressivity in childooh is, and what are some of its causes. Besides, is fundamental for teacher to know how to manage aggressive behavior in children when teaching in the classroom. Moreover, teacher have to know about learning disabilities and learning difficulties. It is essential to say that teachers play an important role on identifying if a student have issues on learning. There are some sings that teacher can notice in children in order to look for a professional on treating this disabilities and difficulties. Finally, the most important fact is to know what type of activities we can integrate into the lesson plan for students with aggressive behavior, learning disabilities or difficulties or children with ADD/ADHD.