Education of Slow Learner
Introduction:
Slow learners are those pupils who have limited ability due to different reason in the education process. Slow learner is advance word for "backward" or "mentally retarded" and "Educationally subnormal" (E.S.N.)
There are different reasons for slow learning, some time it is due to their mental ability, some time it due to their background, illiterate parents, culture problems, avoiding by the parents in early child hood, between ages 2 to 6 years. Some time it due to mental illness. These are different causes of the slow learner.
The purpose of this assignment is to determine the problems of the slow learners and the methods of education, How to teach them, so they can be better person of the society.
1.Objectives of this assignment
2. Identify the causes of slow learning
3. Identification of the slow leaner in the class
4. Problems of slow learner
5. Explorer the method of effective teaching for slow learner
Definition:
According to experts, children who for various reason, fall behind in their school work and require special teaching are called (educationally subnormal) E.S.N.
"Slow learners are children who are doing poorly in school, yet are not eligible for special education; their intelligence test scores are too high for
consideration as a child with mental retardation" (Mercer, 1996) (MacMillan, Gresham, Bocian, & Lambros, 1998).
• Although slow learners may have special educational needs, they do not fit neatly into the special education system (MacMillan, Gresham, Bocian, & Lambros, 1998).
To identify the causes of slow learning
Showing the sign of slow learner doesn't mean that the child is slow learner, there are other factors that could cause the process of slow learning;
• The emotional growth
•The environment
•Growth and the opportunities of
•Learning
•Absenteeism
•Defective vision
•Resource problem
•Illiterate parents
•Untrained teacher
•Class size
•Busy parent no time for children
•Violence in school
•family size
•Health problem
•Evidence show that deprived cultured background may also cause the problem
Illness that cause slow learning
• Alexia
• Dyslexia
• Strephosymbolia
1. Alexia
Definition: "A language impairment caused by injury to the areas of the brain that process visual language. In its accepure "form, the injury prevents people from being able to read, but not from being able to write.
Also Known As: word blindness, pure word blindness, Text blindness or visual aphasia." (Jose Vega M.D., Ph.D)
2. Dyslexia
"Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that mainly affects reading and spelling. Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties in processing word-sounds and by weaknesses in short-term verbal memory; (SPELLIT Research Report)
The effects may be seen in spoken language and written language, Dyslexia tends to run in families Using structured and multi sensory methods to improve the literacy skills of E.S.N Students in early ages.
3.Strephosymbolia
strephosymbolia" A typical symptom of dyslexia in which letters are transposed, reversed, or confused; more generally a disorder in which objects are perceived in mirror image" COLMAN) (ANDREW M.COLMAN.