Learning difficulties

Researcher suggests that teachers should focus on explicit teaching strategies for children with social difficulties. It also presents the importance of implementing early targeted intervention activities. The first step in understanding the problem is assessing the child through observation and interaction. A tool that can be used is the Child observation record, which is a checklist developed by High/Scope Education Research Foundation for “implementing and researching high quality early childhood programs” (Follari, 2011. P.154). this record can assist teachers in determining how best to approach the emotional difficulties and learning difficulties that it causes or caused by it. It is a checklist that assesses developmental outcomes in 30 areas such as cognitive, physical and socioemotional development (Follari, 2011). Each checklist is used for one child, and consists of three observations to be done over time. It will include observing behaviours, acquired skills ...

One would like to think that the world has overcome issues of inclusion vs. special education, or equal rights for all studnents. For teachers, the preparation to understand and cater for all types of learning styles and abilities are presented in most courses for preservice teachers. Similarly, the education system internationally has taken giant steps in implementing more inclusive practices since the 1960 UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education (CADE) (UNESCO, 2014). In Australia, all children have the right to study in schools, and inclusive practices are the normal every day of the learning process. Yet the reality, as some would say, is different to how inclusion and equality should be. According to Oyler (2011), some teachers do not fully understand what inclusion means. Here are some of her observations: “For instance, teachers often refer to “the inclusion kids” or say, “I teach an inclusion class.” Some administrators can be heard to relate “He ...

In a world rapidly changing, the school’s social life with all of its electronic gadgets, tablets, smart phones, social media and internet access;   could be very challenging for children with learning difficulties, especially when these difficulties are social and emotional This could raise issues that set the scene for the student’s learning journey, and change his/her development and learning process greatly. These social and emotional difficulties include self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, resilience and communication. Children with social and emotional difficulties are less likely to perform complex social interactions such as negotiation, and are faced with peer rejection more than children without social and emotional difficulties (LD online see article, other resources). Moreover, some children’s difficulty in reading facial expressions presents another obstacle in the way of their social communication with other people). Viewing their own b...