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 DYSLEXIAS AND DISORDER OF DEFICIT OF ATTENTION
The parents whose children have academic problems feel logically worried. There are many causes for the academic defeats, and one of the most common there are the disorders of learning.
A child with a disorder of learning is in general an intelligent child, who initially tries to continue the instructions, to concentrate and to have good behavior in the house and the school. Nevertheless, the child does not dominate the school tasks and begins to fall behind. Some of these children have also difficulty in remaining calm or paying attention. The problems of learning affect not less than 15 % of the school population.
It is believed that the specific problems of learning are caused by a difficulty of the nervous system that affects the reception, making or communication of information these children are (a Dyslexia). Some of hyperactive and/or I distracted, with very short attention periods, what is known as of Deficit of Disorder Attention (DDA).
These children have treatment and his condition does not cover gravity, in general; but if the disorder is not detected and talks each other on time, the problem can increase and be complicated quickly. A child who in the elementary school does not learn to add up, on having come to the higher institute of learning, will not be able to understand algebra. The child who tries to learn with big effort will be frustrated progressively and will develop emotional problems as absence of self-esteem, result of the repeated defeats. Some children with problems of learning can present also problems of conduct, since they prefer to look like "villains" instead of "idiots or brutes". The parents must know the signs that with major frequency indicate problems of learning in the child.
1. Make difficult in attending or following instructions.
2. Make difficult to remember what has just be said to him.
3. Academic defeats as a result of small mastery of workmanship of the reading, writing and/or arithmetic.
4. Make difficult in distinguishing between the right and the left, for example, confuses 25 with 52, her b with d, her for to, or on for not, etc.
5. Defects in coordination - when it walks, in the sports, in simple manual activities like supporting a pencil, the shoes are moored or to do a bond-.
6. It misleads his notes of the school, his books, notebooks and other materials.
7. He cannot learn the time concepts; it confuses "yesterday", "today", "tomorrow".
The psychiatrist or infantile psychologist will work in collaboration with the educators and personnel of the school, to do tests that could detect the reason of the difficulty in the use and the presence of specific problems of learning. After interviewing the child and the family, and of evaluating the situation, the psychiatrist or infantile psychologist will do recommendations related to the school place adapted for the child, the need for special helps, like academic, occupational therapy, or for the speech, and will take the necessary measures to help to that the child develops to the maximum his potential.
Sometimes the psychiatrist will prescribe medicines, when it is necessary to control the hyperactivity and/or distraibilidad. It will be employed with the child at the strengthening of his self-assurance, essential element for the healthy emotional development. It will help also the parents and other members of the family to face the reality of living with a child with specific problems of learning.
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