Are you struggling in school?

KOCHI: Surveys reveal  that 13 per cent of the total population is affected with learning disorders, mainly reading, writing or calculation problems.  Usually such children are expected to be  individually attended to by special educators in normal mainstream schools. There is always a confusion  between pure learning disorder and scholastic backwardness or poor school performance. The difference is that learning disorder is mostly linked with brain development, while scholastic backwardness could be due to factors such as family problems, lack of interest, laziness etc, which can be corrected more easily. For the latter case, the Children, Child Developmental Evaluation Intervention and  Research Centre (CDEIRC) of Adarsh Charitable Trust has launched a special sophisticated audio-visual software (Scientific Learning- Fast ForWord-www.scilearn.com   ) programme to improve the child’s cognitive, language and literacy skills. Other benefits are enhanced reading skills, good communication skills, stronger memory, better listening and  understanding skills, and above all improvement of self esteem.   The Trust offers special ‘Vidyarambham’ for children with learning problems and poor school performers. Those interested can register for the programme at CDEIRC on October 6. For registration contact: 9895560890, 04843112636 The registration will start at 10 am.