UNDERSTANDING LEARNING DISABILITY

REFLECTION
Inclusion is unconditional acceptance, not tolerance. It's intentional to include.
For everyone to fully participate, barriers must be identified and addressed.
When you consider how important school is to a child's growth, the introduction
of a learning disability is significant. This training provides an overview of the most
common disabilities, their causes, potential impacts on people's behavior and
development, how to recognize and prevent them, and interventions should be used. It's
essential to be aware of how other people learn. It's important to be aware of learning
differences, especially learning difficulties. There are uses for all scenarios, though an
educational situation is where this is most evident. We can communicate and teach
more effectively if we are aware of the teaching strategies from other people.
This training has made it easier for me to understand my cousin, an 11-year-old
boy who is different from the rest of us. We found it tough to control him at first because
he physically harmed us and did as he pleased. His communication and language
problems made it much more difficult for us to get him to calm down. He uses sign
language, which occasionally made us in the family grin because we could speak with
him using our own sign languages so long as we could understand one another. We
didn't see any changes in him until he started attending Catalino Acosta Memorial
Elementary School and stopped hitting us. My aunt, who is also his mother, states that
he is succeeding in his tasks because he alone was able to complete them successfully.
I also observed that he enjoys drawing and writes well. He does know how to use his
cellphone, which occasionally surprises me because he is contacting me and starting a
group chat with my cousins without our instruction. He also enjoys setting his phone's
language to Bahasa Indonesia. He has accomplished several things that have shocked
us, and for that reason I would describe him as gifted.
Winston Churchill believed that continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is
the key to realizing our potential. We are all unique, and although we teachers face
challenges too, we must respond to them as role models if we are to keep our
classrooms organized given the diversity of our learners. All we need to make each
learner a better person in all areas is effort, perseverance, and acceptance of their
individuality.