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Author:Parvathy Viswanath
Founder of AIKYA special school, Chennai
Founder of AIKYA special school, Chennai
Parental Attitude
Parental
Attitude of Children with Learning Disabilities'Learning disabilities
or learning disorders are not easy to diagnose. Learning disabilities
are disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or
written language, do mathematical calculations, co-ordinate movements,
or direct attention. Almost 6 to 10 percentage of children at school
suffer from Learning Disabilities.Research indicates that parental
reaction to the diagnosis of learning disability (LD) is more
pronounced than in any other area of exceptionality. Any other form of
disability, say if a child is severely retarded or physically
handicapped, the parent becomes aware of the problem in the first few
weeks of the child's life. Although learning disabilities occur in
very young children, the disorders are usually not recognized until
the child reaches school age, and hence the parent does not suspect
that a problem exists. When informed of the problem by elementary
school personnel, a parent's first reaction is generally to deny the
existence of the disability. This denial is, of course, unproductive.
The father tends to remain calm in this stage than the mother because;
for he is less exposed to the child's day-to-day frustrations and
failures.It is a proven fact that the parents of an LD child face a
series of emotion before being able to accept the child and his
problem. These emotions are unpredictable and come in at random. These
emotions ranges form denial of the problem to blame on the partner and
fear that the problem could be much worse than what has been revealed
to them. These parents go from comparing with the siblings to mourning
for the Childs problem. In their desperation they often take
irrational decisions and take their child from doctor to doctor hoping
that there had been some mistake at the initial diagnosis. They start
believing that they are alone against the entire world and try blaming
the teachers, their neighbors and the neighborhood for their Childs
problem. Guilt for the Childs condition is a very predominant factor
which leads them to act in desperation. Some parents even believe that
they could make it go away by ignoring it. The only way in which this
emotional turbulence of the parents can be dealt with is through
assurance and proper awareness. It is important that they understand
that with proper help, most LD children can make excellent progress.
The best way to provide these assurances is by providing them examples
of successful adults such as attorneys, business executives,
physicians, teachers, etc. who had learning disabilities but overcame
them. The parents find relief and are assured of overcoming this
trauma by letting themselves know that by special education and
special care their children can overcome this disability.
Comment 1: By Parvathy Viswanath on 06th Oct 2008
Yes, Infact we have been giving our
recommendations to the concerned miniters and
officials to add a chapter on these subjects in
their curiculum. Also short term trainig programme
for mainstream school teachers would be helpful.
Comment 2: By Raveendrakumar B on 05th Oct 2008
And one more important thing many of the schools
dont have knowledge how to handle such students.
Such things should be a part of teachers learning
curriculm.
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