Case study

 

Case Study

Learning Disability

Tarani Bhatta

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out on a girl name chetana who has been identified with learning disability . She is presently studying at Samaiji School for the special children in krishnapur . The girl were brought to this special school. From the normal school where she was studying earlier when the teacher and parents found difficult to teach the child with other normal children.

Introduction

Children with special learning disabilities exhibit a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological process involved in understanding or in using spoken or written languages. The learning disabled child has intelligence of any other normal child but he faces problem in learning.

A learning disabled child may face problem in reading, writing , spelling,speech. or the power of memorization. In the present case the child is able to write well. She can do mathematics fairly well, can speak very clearly and is socially active. She is quiteneat in her presentation too but her the stumbling block is her memory. She forgets as soon as the learn. Due to this problem of hers she is not able to copy up with the peers in her normal school.

Learning is a process that involves step which are all cognitive and use the brain.

Case  History

Name : Chetana

Date of birth : 2072/03/09

Father name : Ram Prashed (35 years)

Mother name : Ganga (32 years)

Mother tangue : Nepali

Religion : Hindu

Number of family member : 4

Pregnancy : wented

No infection to mother during pregnancy

NATAL HISTORY

Birth place : Home

Delivery : Full term and normal

Birth weight : Normal

POST NATAL

Any infection at birth : NO

Head injury : NO

Convulsions : NO

Jaundice : NO

 

From the above investigation one realize that there was no problem what over during prequnancy and also the frequency was a wanted one. The special teacher of krishnapur repoted that chetana is a very social child. She likes to do her work first of all. She enjoys controlling her group. The parents too have very positive attitude towards the child. She takes keen interest in all the activates of the school and makes sure that the child keeps barest of all that is being done there. She provides full help and support to her. This is evident from some charts that she helped her make. The father too takes interest in all her activities. The parents want that the child should become independent in life and would make their daughter do same vicinal course or training so that she is able to earn her livelihood earily even when they might not be around.

 

Conclusions

The child does suffer from a special kind of learning disability which we label as executive functioning where in a child forgets as soon as her learns. The condition is definitely very restricting as the child is not in a position to equal other children even though the I.Q. level may not be poor. Such a child needs repetition of the content that is taught time and again. He cannot retain what he has learnt for a log period of time. In such a situation the teacher and parents have to be patient with him and have to devote time with the child so that he revises again and again so as to memorize well. Again have scolding and reprimanding will not help as  the child will only get demoralized as he is already trying his level best and can't do better than that. Also comparing him with other would put him on the backfoot.