Foundation for Rehabilitation and Education of Special Children (FRESH) Chairperson Ashba Kamran has called for encouraging slow learners so that they could become useful citizens. She has also appealed the parents to reassess their attitude toward their child's disability and stop discouraging them through their negative behavior.
According to her, any discouraging attitude develops negative thinking in children with learning disabilities that there is something horribly wrong with them because parents approach their disability with fear... or maybe even anger.
She pointed out that inattentiveness, distractibility, lack of stick-to-itiveness and learning disorders interfere with academic progress of slow learners despite the presence of a normal IQ. Even if the child does have special learning difficulties, he will have harder time learning than his intellectual peers will, she said.
She said the parents must develop patience to tolerate frustration on the part of children with learning disability, as some subjects are hard to understand and cannot be mastered without stick-to-itiveness.
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