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Research Paper | Home Science | India | Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016
Prevalence of Learning Disabilities among Pre-School Children in Faizabad District (Uttar Pradesh)
Pratibha [72] | Mukta Garg [2]
Abstract: Learning disability is defined and a line is drawn between learning dis- abilities and school difficulties resulting from other causes such as inadequate school management, lack of well-trained and effective teachers in the schools, large class sizes, providing early primary education in an international language that is not the childs mother tongue, lack of teaching materials, and unfortunately still sometimes negative attitudes among some teachers toward children with disabilities and their inclusion in regular schools as a result of teachers traditions and culture, as described by Abosi (2007). A study was carried out assess the Prevalence of learning Disabilities among Pre-school Children in Faizabad District. The study also focused on causes of learning disabilities among pre- school children. For the present study total sample of 60 pre -school children are selected using random sampling technique were selected from the faizabad district. Study was found that the majority of parental carelessness and child illness are major causes of learning disabilities of children. And majority of problems in found that the mathematical problems are most prevalent learning disability in pre -school children.
Keywords: Learning disability reading dysgraphia reading dyslexia, mathematics dyscalculia
Edition: Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016,
Pages: 788 - 790