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BRIEF ABOUT LEARNING DISABILITY

  Struggling learners tend to have a pattern of real strengths and weaknesses in their underlying skills, causing them to over-rely on their strengths.  Learning means acquiring information Ability means physical and mental potentiality to do Disability means problem in physical and mental ability. A kids in classroom is sitting and watching projector if child has visual acuity problem then it's eye related impairment but same student has good eye acuity despite that have difficulty to understand the content then it's learning disabilty.again here lack of interest is different thing. Learning Disability (LD) means difficulty in aquisition of information. LD solve their problems by intuition not by logic or creatively .(Frontal lobe does problem solving) dyscalculia doesn't have number sense,mental maths, sequencing and organising & mathematical operations.Poor time management and money handling. Dyscalculia can't read calender eg if asked how many Mondays are the...
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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PART 1

  O ccupational therapy ASSIST/SUPPORT patient/client to learn or improve skills needed to perform an occupation. An Occupation could include any thing from brushing teeth ,making bed,bathing toileting , going to office ,school related tasks . Occupational therapist works with all types of age group that is children ,adult and elderly population. Occupational therapist first completes an evaluation of task or Occupation to develop impression of impeding problem.After identifying the problem OT starts with specific treatment for the problem taking client from being unable to able.  Problem in performing any occupation/task could be cause either by sensory issue,motor difficulty,perception ,cognition and so on. Occupational therapist have specialization that is pediatric occupational therapist,Neuro occupational therapist,Orthopedic,Geriatric, Oncologist and so on. _____________________________________
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Be Wise with THERAPY BALL

  Therapy ball or Exercise ball should be used precautiously and implement exercise under expert personal ,when doing with Child with special needs.Therapy ball comes in different sizes and types ,speak with your child's mentor before purchasing the right one for the home program. Some of the noteworthy benefits of therapy ball base exercise are Strength ,Power ,Sensory ,Movement and Endurance . Take care while doing exercises with therapy ball to avoid accident or injury. After exercise store the ball appropriately .
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THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS OF CLAY

-To relieve stress. -To improve sitting tolerance . -To improve handwriting. -To improve hand dexterity & strength . -To unleash creativity and abstract . -Sensory enrichment-Tactile input & proprioceptive input. -Improves body awareness .
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WHAT IF I GET A KIND HEARTED TEACHER!

  WHAT IF I GET A KIND HEARTED TEACHER!🙂 what if I get a kind-hearted teacher! No more breaking of lead of pencil while writing, if I get kindhearted teacher! letter won't dance around me  if I get kindhearted teacher! Mathematical signs will get categorised  if I get kindhearted teacher! my written work will become organized  if I get kindhearted teacher! No more crying upon opening a book if I get kindhearted teacher! No more daydreaming in classroom if I get kindhearted teacher! No more cries and excuses with studies  if I get kindhearted teacher ! Math ,Reading and literature work will be a joy if I get kindhearted teacher! School won't be any dread if I get kindhearted teacher! Knowledge is ocean  I want to dive and swim into for that I need a kindhearted teacher! To take the nectar of knowledge   I need a kindhearted teacher! Wish I stop beating around the bushes  if I have kindhearted teacher by my side Don't let the time fly ,Hear ...
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RIGHT or LEFT or MIXED HAND?

U nderdeveloped Hand dominance can cause problem in further development of learning in child. As Child grows he need to develop his learning skills to overcome the challenges in daily occupations.                     HAND DOMINANCE   You may see a very young child keep switching hand while doing every task .It is quite normal to happen while early development of brain.At time it's quite confusing for parent to say assertively about child's hand preference . Initially a hand is preferred to do a task and by practice hand preference is succeeded by Dominance either Right handed or Left handed .In very rare case Child can be ambidextrous (mix dominance) that is using either of hand for given task example using Right hand for eating and Left hand for writing purpose. Confusion of dominance can hamper lateralization of Cerebral Hemisphere and integration leading to difficulties of Fine motor , Speech development and Visual Motor Integr...
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BRIEF NOTE ON REVERSAL,BACKWARD AND INVERSAL IN LANGUAGE EXPRESSION OF CHILD

R eversal letters/numbers are those written in a backward manner . Example instead of printing ' b' child will write d and vice versa ,other letters commonly reversed are  j ,p ,q,t and c thus reversal are commonly observed in lower case alphabets.Numerical wise reversed are2,5,6,7and 9 are common. Inverse letter/numbers are those that are written upside down or down side up such as m for w and vice versa with oppose to spoken language/sound.Usually notice in case of alphabets only. It is necessary that such minor looking issue to be resolved at the time of child's early academic development to evade writing deterioration ahead. It is observed that reversal and Inversal letters are common to happen while learning to write the alphabets or numbers , in initial part of writing development of child and right handed vs left hander but the child soon need to get over them and master to write all the letters and number perfectly.  Child with Directionality concern always faces ch...
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