Vision and Reading Difficulties Part 1: Specific learning difficulties and vision

This article is the first in a series of five about vision and reading difficulties, and provides an introduction and an overview of learning disabilities and specific learning difficulties. It outlines the role of the optometrist in helping people with such problems; it describes the symptoms that optometrists should look for and it provides an introduction of the evidence-based approach. The second article in this series will cover the optometric and orthoptic correlates of reading difficulties. Articles three and four will describe the use of coloured filters, including background, techniques, evidence, and mechanism. The final article will draw together the themes in the series of articles and discuss the clinical protocol and the role of the eye care practitioner in managing visual factors associated with reading difficulties

Dysfunctional vs. functional difficulties: a new perspective on learning disabilities

This study was developed as part of an exploratory work on concepts and common sense beliefs about learning difficulties in the Portuguese educational community. Lay conceptions of college students were analyzed in a qualitative study in order to identify different ways of understanding learning difficulties. Students from different courses and levels of training, without specific information in this field of educational psychology, responded by writing to four open questions about learning and learning disabilities. Data were analyzed to identify the range of personal conceptions. Written responses were subjected to content analysis. Multiple categories emerged and were grouped into four main perspectives, incorporating nine different lay conceptions of learning difficulties. These common sense conceptions corresponded in a very precise way to the scientific conceptions of “learning disabilities” which were successively developed in recent decades (Poplin, 1988). Besides, more than distinguish between two types of students, with and without LD, results suggest a new distinction between two kinds of difficulties, dysfunctional versus functional difficulties. Functional difficulties are needed and should be promoted to enhance the quality of learning

Diagnosis Of Learning Difficulties And Guidance Learning Services To Slow Learner Student

The failure to the learning process to reach ketuntasan material may not be returned in one factor , but on several factors involved in the process of teaching and learning. In the process diagnosis a learning disability what is important is finding the difficulty and types of difficulty teaching improvements conducted by effectively. A diagnosis is finding the a learning disability students and determine the possibility of how to overcome by taking into account the factors that affect the success of learning activities

The Difficulties of Learning Logic Programs with Cut

As real logic programmers normally use cut (!), an effective learning procedure for logic programs should be able to deal with it. Because the cut predicate has only a procedural meaning, clauses containing cut cannot be learned using an extensional evaluation method, as is done in most learning systems. On the other hand, searching a space of possible programs (instead of a space of independent clauses) is unfeasible. An alternative solution is to generate first a candidate base program which covers the positive examples, and then make it consistent by inserting cut where appropriate. The problem of learning programs with cut has not been investigated before and this seems to be a natural and reasonable approach. We generalize this scheme and investigate the difficulties that arise. Some of the major shortcomings are actually caused, in general, by the need for intensional evaluation. As a conclusion, the analysis of this paper suggests, on precise and technical grounds, that learning cut is difficult, and current induction techniques should probably be restricted to purely declarative logic languages.Comment: See http://www.jair.org/ for any accompanying file

THE STUDENT LEARNING DIFFICULTY FACTOR XI CLASS BUILDING DRAWING LESSONS OF EXPERTISE BUILDING SMK NEGERI 3 YOGYAKARTA

This study aims at determine the influence of the most dominant factor OF learning difficulties of the students in Grade XI Subject Areas Building Drawing Building SMK Negeri 3 Yogyakarta, learning difficulties were factors include: (1) Internal factors consist of: (a) Physical factors, (b) Factors Psychology, and (2) External factors consist of: (a) Family environmental factors, (b) and School of Environmental Factors (c) Environmental factors Society. The research was conducted at SMK Negeri 3 Yogyakarta. The sample of this research is the Department of Building class XI student of 85 students drawn from a population of 113 students who are of 4 classes namely GB1, GB2, GB3, and KK. The sampling technique using a proportional sampling. Techniques of data retrieval is done by distributing questionnaires and documentation. Validation test by consulting with the lecturers and experts to test the validity items using application programs excel 2007, while the reliability of the instrument using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Data analysis techniques performed descriptively by finding the mean (M) score of learning difficulties experienced by students to draw a building subjects. The results of this study indicate that a class XI student of building expertise SMK Negeri 3 Yogyakarta to draw a building subjects have difficulty learning from a selected number of samples, the results obtained (1) learning difficulties physical factor 8.23%, (2) learning difficulty factor Psychology of 21.18%, (3) difficulty learning environment factors family 15.29%, (4) difficulty learning school environment factors 11.76%, (5) difficulty learning community environment factors 12.94%. So the class XI students building area of expertise to learn the dominant factor is the difficulty factor of Psychology. Key words: Learning Difficulties, Drawing Buildings, SMK Negeri 3 Yogyakart

Home for Good? Preparing to Support People with Learning Difficulties in Residential Settings when they Develop Dementia

This report explores the findings of a study which investigated the current models of practice for supporting people with learning difficulties and dementia living in care home settings. It looked at the key issues and discovered examples of best practice in relating to providing care homes for this group. The report includes a poster with some quick tips for staff supporting people with learning difficulties and dementia