Dysgraphia is a learning disorder that impairs the writing ability and fine motor skills of some children. It interferes with how the person spells and the legibility and expression of their writing. It’s estimated to affect anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of all children.
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Research and practice have proven that Early Intervention produces immediate and long-term benefits for children with disabilities, their family and society.
As noted by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities
If you have ever tried to help loved ones experiencing prolonged, acute stress or someone trying to deal with a past traumatic experience, you may have noticed and realised that talking to them doesn’t seem to yield much success. These issues can so deeply affect people that verbalising them may be so difficult that it no longer becomes an option.
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Proper life skills instructions are immeasurably important for students with disabilities. The knowledge and skill interactions believed to be essential for adult independent living should be met at an early age for Special Needs students. These students require the proper education and support to learn these necessary behaviours.
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A communication disorder is a disorder that negatively affects the person’s ability to speak or engage in discussions with other people. It can range from the inability to understand their own native language, or it can be an inability to make the proper sounds necessary for speech.
It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that the child might have some other learning disorder, or in some cases, that the child may be misbehaving and being stubborn.
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Early childhood intervention is an educational and support system for young children who have developmental delays or disabilities. It also supports children who may have been victims of abuse or neglect.
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Some people believe that letting children play is unproductive, and that it wastes their potential to learn other more important things. Play is often used as a reward for doing something approved by parents and also to be taken away as a punishment. However, play can be so much more than that.
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It’s not simple or easy to determine if a child has a learning disability. Many otherwise normal behaviour can sometimes be misidentified for being a learning disability.
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When people think about helping children with special needs, it typically involves helping them do things. That’s not wrong, but we also need to take their mental and emotional well-being into consideration.
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The role of a special needs educator is a challenging but rewarding one to fill. The people who become special needs educators must overcome a great deal of personal challenges as well as the challenges of the job in order to ensure their students are living up to the best of their abilities.
These challenges come from needing to personalise education plans, and ensuring each and every student learns in the manner that is best suited to them for them to develop and progress. There are many different kinds of learning disorders that their students may have, and the special needs educators must find some way to accommodate this for the child’s benefit. This requires a high degree of dedication, training, and care; with demand steadily growing for schools and educators.
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