General Provisions for the education of LD Children
The
important educational provisions that are available for the learning disabled
children are the following:
1. Provisions
for special schools or classes: This is based on the presumption that the learning
disabled children cannot be taught along with normal children as they suffer
from severe learning deficits. Hence there should be special schools or
separate classes for the learning disabled where the same curriculum is taught
to them with greater care and attention by specially trained teachers through
special methods and techniques.
2. Provision
for special remedial educational programmes: The remedial educational
programmme is made available to learning disabled children by utilizing the
existing educational set-up. It begins with the proper identification of the
nature, type and magnitude of learning difficulties. Then special remedial
educational programmes are chalked out to meet the needs of individual
students. The resources and services extended by government agencies like
NCERT,SCERT,DIET, Teacher Education Centres, Universities and non-goberment
organizations are utilized to provide assistance to LD children.
3. Structuring
and improving the existing environmental set-up: Where learning disability is a
contribution of the negative factors present in the physical, social, cultural
and educational environment of the individual, steps should be taken to
structure and improve the existing environmental set-up. The task requires the
joint effort of teachers, parents, government agencies, counselors, guidance
workers, psychologists, social workers, community agencies .
4. Specialised
approaches and techniques: The following specialized approaches and techniques
were found to be effective for helping learning disabled children:
(a)
Behavioural approach: In this approach, the behaviour of the learning disabled
is modified by restructuring the environmental conditions and subsequent
reinforcement of the desired learning
behaviour.
(b)
Psychoanalytic approach: In this approach, the underlying root causes of the
learning disability are identified by analyzing the unconscious behaviour and steps
are taken to solve it.
(c)
Individualized instructional approach: Each learning disabled individual is
encouraged to make progress at individual rate by providing individual
assistance so that they feel quite safe and secure and gradually they may come
up to the satisfactory learning level.
(d)
Multi-sensory approach
(e) Self
instructional approach
(f)
Technological approach
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