Awareness on Learning Disability Dyscalculia among Primary School Teachers A Study

Learning Disability (LD)  as a term that denotes a group of disorders manifest as difficulties in the acquisition and use of abilities such as listening, reading, writing, reasoning, spelling, arithmetic or of social skills (Gerber and Reiff 1994). These difficulties arise from inadequate development of minuscule brain areas, so called ‘Specific Delay in Development’. Learning disabilities are of various types such as Perceptual disabilities, Dyslexia (difficulty to read), Dysgraphia (difficulty to write) Dyscalculia (difficulty to do mathematical calculations), Dyspraxia (difficulty in performing coordinated movements), and Developmental Aphasia (difficulty in communication) (RPWD Act, 2016).  Children with mild level of LD cannot be identified easily. Boys are affected by learning disability three times more than girls, because of genetic reasons (Narayan, 1997). Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) of the child should be assessed and adequate training to be given with teaching strategies in appropriate environment.