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Learning Disabilities and Adults |
Contents
1. Discovery Phase of
Adults with Learning Disabilities
2. Getting Help for
Adults with Learning Disabilities
3. Learning Styles of
Adults with Learning Disabilities
4. Finding Solutions
for Adults with Learning Disabilities
5. Getting in Motion
for Adults with Learning Disabilities
6. Parent and Child
with Similar Learning Disabilities
1.
Discovery Phase of Adults with Learning Disabilities |
Adults with learning disabilities face
challenges on many levels of daily living. I see dealing with one or more
learning disabilities as an adult, a process of finding the avenues that work
to get the task done.
What first comes to mind is knowing what the limitations are. After all, when
we know what we can't do we are more motivated to find what we can do to
compensate.
I'll use myself as an example. I have a 30 decibel hearing loss in one ear.
That is the good news. The bad news is that at age five I completely lost my
hearing in both ears due to complications of the long measles and chickenpox.
For a month in 1st grade I could not hear. Gradually over the years my hearing
returned to the degree mentioned.
This hearing loss led to not being able to learn to sound out words in 1st and
2nd grade. Forget phonics. Unfortunately, my teachers and family thought I had
my full hearing back and I didn't so my lack of hearing caused the academic
problem. I compensated by learning to memorize how to spell words by looking at
them very hard and writing them out.
Memorizing rather than sounding out words is still my primary way of learning
to spell a new word.
Looking back to when we were kids and thinking about any area we may have had
trouble with then and still have trouble with now gives us a clue in what area
or areas to seek advice and assistance if a solution doesn't easily come to
mind.
Also, does your child have a learning disability? Perhaps you had or have the
same issues. When I was growing up and going through the elementary school
system in the 50s there wasn't a mention of learning disabilities except that a
student was below average, average or above average.
I am glad that by the time my kids were in the elementary school system in the
70s that the specific learning disabilities were being identified and help
provided.
If you are an adult and had trouble with academics in school and suspect you
have a learning disability it is not too late to find out and get help.
Community colleges will do testing for you as an adult reentry student. It is
worth a go to find out what your learning disability may be and get help with
learning alternate ways of doing that task you may have thought too hard - when
what you really need is to find a different approach.
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