Specific Learning Disability and the Right to Education 2009 Act: call for action.

摘要

Specific learning disability (SpLD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that manifest in childhood as persistent difficulties in learning to efficiently read (dyslexia), write (dysgraphia) or perform mathematical calculations (dyscalculia) despite normal intelligence, conventional schooling, intact hearing and vision, adequate motivation and sociocultural opportunity. These children present with "academic problems" such as reading slowly and incorrectly, skipping lines while reading aloud, making repeated spelling mistakes, untidy/illegible handwriting with poor sequencing and inability to perform even simple additions and subtractions. SpLD afflicts almost 5-15% of school-going children and is believed to be genetically inherited.