Thursday, September 3, 2009

Learning disability

The day before yesterday, I read an article about some people who have certain disabilities of learning, writing, reading, spelling and speaking. For all of these reasons, and because they have some abnormalities in their brain, it is hard for them to process and absorb information.

One disease of learning disability is called dyslexia, a dyslexia patient has normal vision and intelligence, but has difficulty reading because he reads the letters in words differently. He may see the letters backwards, upside down, or sideways.

Another learning disability is when someone has trouble translating what he thinks into writing. They can communicate very well by speaking, but when they try to write, they become blocked, then can't write at all, or they can only write very slowly. Their handwriting may look like that of a younger child.

These problems make them have trouble to keep up with their classmates. Fortunately, this disease can be treated. If not, these problems will become social problems.

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