What are the signs of learning difficulties?

Learning Difficulties Learning difficulties are common problems affecting 8% to 10% of children under the age of 18 years, a term that describes the challenges facing children in the learning process, and has nothing to do with intelligence or physical or mental disabilities in the child. Of that problem is healthy despite their difficulty in some processes such as reading, writing, mathematical processes, and understanding of trends. In this article we will present the symptoms and signs of learning disabilities that appear in children.

Signs of learning difficulties in children four years ago

• Difficulty in pronunciation.
• Non-adherence to tone during singing or singing.
• Confusing similar characters and turning some numbers and difficulty in learning colors, shapes and days of the week.
• There is a problem in understanding trends and in following the routine.
• Difficulty catching some tools such as pen, scissors, or chalk.
• Difficulty handling buttons and keys.
• Face difficulty in the lace.

Four years - nine years

1. The inability to link letters so that spaces are not left between the letters, and the letters do not fall on one straight line and the writing is illegible.
2. Difficulty with pronunciation.
3. Difficulty tying characters together and forming and pronouncing a word.
4. Confusing words when he reads them, rereading some lines or jumping from them.
5. Do not recognize the word if part of it appears.
6. The error is greatly in the process of spelling and reading.
7. You have difficulty learning basic account concepts such as addition and subtraction.
8. Difficulty remembering a particular order such as arranging the parts of the day and the hour.
9. The inability to read time. Difficulty learning new skills.

Reasons for learning difficulties

• The genetic factor is so likely that one of the parents suffers from the problem of learning difficulties.
• Fault or error in brain growth during fetal development.
• Problems during pregnancy and childbirth, such as the sudden decrease of oxygen that reaches the fetus or the interaction of the mother's immune system with the fetus to attack a foreign body, resulting in an imbalance in the development of the nervous system of the fetus.
• Environmental pollution because of its harmful effect in the growth of nerve cells.