The Mind of the Learning Disabled

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by Krish Patel3 views·Updated May 17, 2021
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  1. All right.
  2. So there's quite a few learning disabilities few that people
  3. know a little bit less about and some that people
  4. know a little bit more about.
  5. So let's hop right in here.
  6. Um First we have dyslexia.
  7. This is typically the most uh known disease And it's
  8. kind of what you associate when you think about learning
  9. disorders. Um Dyslexia is known to affect 80-90 of people
  10. who have learning disabilities.
  11. And a common misconception with Dyslexia is that it changes
  12. how people see letters and that's in fact not true.
  13. What it does is it makes it to where people
  14. that have dyslexia have a hard time connecting those letters
  15. to their sounds.
  16. Um And also typically people of with dyslexia can have
  17. normal intelligence and the most perplexing thing about it is
  18. that ah their intelligence levels shows that they should be
  19. able to read just fine but are not able to.
  20. All right moving on.
  21. Um A.
  22. D. H.
  23. D. Is also another common learning disorder.
  24. And it's not a similar to the some of the
  25. other one just because it's it doesn't directly affect your
  26. understanding of things but it can give you a shorter
  27. attention span and also um Right it gives you a
  28. harder time understanding things over time just because you may
  29. not be able to pay attention for as long.
  30. and this 80 HD is one of the conditions where
  31. it might completely disappear into adulthood.
  32. Okay. All right moving on to this calcula.
  33. This is a this is a more uncommon learning disorder
  34. that not as many people know about.
  35. There's not as much awareness of it.
  36. We only really started to understand it about 10-15 years
  37. ago. But essentially what it does is it gives uh
  38. students a hard time understanding math concepts or just anything
  39. that has to do with numbers they don't particularly understand
  40. place value.
  41. That's one of the main things that they struggle with.
  42. And not only can this affect arithmetic in school but
  43. it can also translate over to things like board games
  44. or just other activities that involve simple math.
  45. And our last one here is dysgraphia.
  46. Dysgraphia is also a lesser known learning disability although it
  47. said that it could possibly be just as common as
  48. dyslexia. Um And the thing with dysgraphia is it doesn't
  49. necessarily impair the understanding of your writing or reading but
  50. in fact impairs the motor skills that are associated with
  51. writing. Um This graph is also known to kind of
  52. happened in conjunction with A.
  53. D. H.
  54. D. And people describe you have pretty normal average reading
  55. skills and have the potential to have you been very
  56. high reading skills?
  57. All right.
  58. Let's move on to some of the things that ah
  59. people can do to practice and understand and overcome their
  60. learning disabilities and programs that are made to do so.
  61. All right.
  62. So the take Flight program was started by the Scottish
  63. Rite pediatrics Hospital.
  64. And it's a very successful program for people to dyslexia.
  65. Um It uses many methods to help people with dyslexia.
  66. It really likes to personalize the approach to make sure
  67. that everybody can get help.
  68. And um this is tended to branch from a method
  69. that was originated by Orton Orton gilling ham Stillman.
  70. It's a little bit of a mouthful.
  71. And um the the Scottish Rite Hospital also offers these
  72. programs for adults and they mostly last up to two
  73. years. So it's very feasible to put this in um
  74. after school and they we'll also do it during school.
  75. All right.
  76. As far as things that people can do to just
  77. practice and overcome these disabilities that they have uh, on
  78. top of having a full fledged education program to overcome
  79. them. Um, as far as for dyslexia, it can help
  80. to just, you know, go along the letters and try
  81. to sound them out.
  82. And this is something that a lot of parents of
  83. dyslexic kids are encouraged to do.
  84. It will help them understand the letters and just connect
  85. the sounds to letters better as far as dysgraphia is
  86. another one that can just be overcome with a lot
  87. of practice.
  88. Um, just things like connecting dots, tracing letters and copying
  89. from letter models like you would if you started learning
  90. cursive and it will just improve your motor skills overall.
  91. So that will be all for learning disabilities.
  92. And um, as we go, there's more technological research in
  93. programs that are more effective at curing these and hopefully
  94. it only gets better