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Difficulty in Remembering and Focusing

This document discusses difficulties in remembering and focusing, including learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It provides characteristics of learning disabilities such as distractibility, lack of persistence, inconsistency in performance, and excessive daydreaming. General educational adaptations are suggested like providing predictable schedules, preparation for changes, and direction using students' strengths with language.

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Difficulty in Remembering and Focusing

This document discusses difficulties in remembering and focusing, including learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It provides characteristics of learning disabilities such as distractibility, lack of persistence, inconsistency in performance, and excessive daydreaming. General educational adaptations are suggested like providing predictable schedules, preparation for changes, and direction using students' strengths with language.

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DIFFICULTY IN

REMEMBERING
AND FOCUSING

KEN PAUL V. BALCUEVA


Reporter
Learners with Difficulty
in Remembering and
Focusing
DEFINITION

are condition that impact on


an individual’s ability to gain
knowledge and skills at the same
rate as his/ her peers. They may
be due to a mental handicap or a
cognitive disorder

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Learning
Disabilities
(LDs) This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC

Learning Disabilities (LDs) refer to a variety of


neurologically-based disorders that affect a person’s ability
to take in, understand, remember or express information
• Is defined as a persistent
Attention pattern of problematic
Deficit symptoms that include difficulty
Hyperactivity staying focused and paying
Disorder attention, difficulty controlling
behavior, and/or hyperactivity
(ADHD) (overactivity)

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Distractibility

No persistence with the task

Inconsistency in performance from one day to another

Excessive daydreaming during a school related task

Learning Excess motor activity (something is always moving)

Characteristics Impulsiveness (act without thinking much of the time)

Insatiability (never satisfied with an activity)

Poor response to discipline

Moodiness

Sleep disturbances (very restless sleeper)


General
Educational
Adaptation
• Provide predictable schedules as
much as possible
• Provide preparation for changes
in routines and give notice that
they are about to be asked
• To make a transition in activities
• Give advance planning and
instruction about unfamiliar
tasks and situation
General
Educational
Adaptation
• Create small, calm, and
controlled group setting that
provide greater safety and
increase the chance for
successful social experiences
• Surround kids with others who
share interests or talents
• Give them verbal direction and
instruction. Use their strengths
with language to help them
• Learn what others can observe
and learn more easily
General
Educational
Adaptation
• Help them learn to observe and
notice others’ facial expression,
body language, tone of voice and
other social cues
• Teach them such details as:
• What is expected in different social,
family and school situation
• How others feel, how to organize and
carry out task
• Expect to repeat direct teaching several
times before kids are able to master the
skills.
• Model and practice the use of language
that is similar to age-peers, rather than
relying on “adult” language.

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