ADOLESCENT LEARNING DISABILITY: SOME MYTHS

Sometimes a person is diagnosed with learning disability. It is a perpetual disorder that mars a person's intelligence and damages his/her ability to store and process information and knowledge.

A number of misconceptions about learning disorders are prevalent among the common people:

1) It is just a matter of time for the learning disability to recede. But in actuality that is not correct.

There are ways to overcome the problem. As for instance, slow-learning children can use audiotapes in order to record the proceedings in the class; their classmates and teachers can also help them by copying the notes for them.

2) Low IQ accompanies a learning disorder. This is not a truth. Sometimes a person with a learning disability has a better IQ than any normal person. In many cases a person with high level of IQ is incompetent in learning very quickly.

3) Laziness is a cause of learning disability. It may be so that a person's brain does not process the stimuli that fast and so he cannot learn fast. This might also be that a slow learning person finds those things, easier to grasp, which he has effectively come across.

4) People with learning disability does everything wrong. This is a totally incorrect view. A learning disability does not mean that a person cannot do anything correctly.

Although none of the parents wish their children to be incompetent in learning fast, a child with LD should be treated intelligently by his/her parents who need to learn first how to recognize and deal with their child's plight.