Answer to Question #220948 in English for M.S

Question

Characteristics of development delay and disabilities and how if affects learning in early years

Answer 1

Developmental disabilities are a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behavior areas. These conditions begin during the developmental period, may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually last throughout a person’s lifetime.

the characteristics include;

• Disorders of attention
• Reading difficulties
• Poor motor abilities
• Written language difficulties
• Oral language difficulties
• social skills deficit
• Psychological process deficits
• Quantitative disorders
• Information problem processing

The characteristics exhibited by one child with a learning disability may be quite different with another child with a learning disability but generally any child with learning difficulties exhibit perceptual problems. They may often lose the motivation to succeed in school as failure starts to become more prominent they begin to take an external locus of control.