- By: Soraya Lewis. Master in sciencie of education
- Teacher
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- Frequently, parents ask themselves if school performance is being affected by something
specific. Constantly, we can hear questions such as "Is actually home the complement
of school in the teaching-learning process?"
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- There are so many questions without a precise and concrete answer that the only thing
people can do is to continue asking if, in fact, children presenting any problem are given
the necessary help to overcome it.
- But, detection must be carried out before this stage. A child in its early life acquires
skills and learns what is going to permit to achieve a better school performance. Although
there are many intervening factors, it is parents and teachers’ work to detect any
kind of alteration which does not permit the child to adequately develop.
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- In the earlier detection of learning problems, it must be taken into account whether the
child shows difficulties in its basic processes which may be affecting its cognitive
development or it is being observed any discrepancy between what the child is able to do
and actually do.
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- Parents and all the family are socially and emotionally affected when any difficulty is
detected to one of their children. But, many times, this is an inevitable reality that
must be assumed with responsibility. In order the child to obtain a good performance, it
is valuable to supply it with help and the necessary tools to overcome its difficulty.
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- A teacher at school plays the role of a substitute father because s/he is a fundamental
part of the child’s development. The teacher must be able to detect any behaviour
alteration which can affect the child directly or indirectly farther on.
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- Learning problems are shown principally in school performance. Detecting inability in
attention, concentration, performing fine motricity tasks, retaining information and so
on, will give some clues for making a good diagnostic evaluation and, in this way,
confirming suspects about a learning difficulty.
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- The work of parents and teachers as a whole will ease the labour of detection as far as
they work alternatively and in order to favour the child’s emotional welfare. The
sensitisation towards these problems will permit the performance of a good job because
nowadays, our population is increasingly being affected by this kind of problems.
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- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- DE RIEGO, Pablo. Dificultades en el aprendizaje de la lectura y la escritura. SL Vida,
1996. Pp 79 - 82
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- AZCOAGA, Juan, DERMAIN, Berta, IGLESIAS, Angélica. Alteraciones del aprendizaje
escolar: Diagnóstico, Fisiopatología y Tratamiento. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1982. P. 273
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- JIMENEZ, Jaime. La prevención de dificultades en el
aprendizaje de la lectoescritura.: El método Mapal. 3 ed. Madrid: General Pardiñas,
1985. 163 p.
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