Every child is special.

There are many problems which i/you/anyone for that matter faced in their early life. It would be more hurting if that is related with learning disablility. People with learning disabilities have difficulty taking in, organizing, and/or acting on information their brains receive through the senses.
One of the common learning disability is Dyslexia. Well after watching Taare Zameen par you would surely know about Dsyslexia. What you may not know is that there are many more.

1) Dysgraphia : Developmental writing disorder -
                        Problems with handwriting. For example: Writing in such a way that it makes sense only to you or writing which makes sense to others but you cant understand your own handwriting.

2) Dyscalculia: Developmental arithmetic disorder
                       Problems with arithmetic calculations or abstract concepts. For example: Adding instead of subtracting etc.

Also there are other speech related disorders such as,
3) Articulation Disorder:
Problems producing speech sounds, pronouncing certain letters or letter combinations.
I actually had this problem in my childhood days. I had difficulty in pronouncing certain letters. I would spell tha(தா) for ka(கா). So கல்யாணம் became தல்யானம், காக்கா becomes தாத்தா, காலை becomes தாலை

4) Expressive language disorder:
Problems using spoken language to communicate, expressing yourself verbally.
Some of them may have obstacles in speaking freely.One of my friend had such a problem. He attended an interview for a job and the interviewers just bullied him about his way of speaking. They just failed to realize that it was his natural problem. My friend just left the interview with tears. (Incidentally, the interviewers were TCS employees and later apologized for their action !!) Even the grown ups cannot recognize this problem. Imagine a child being bullied for the same. It would totally affect the child’s confidence levels !!! 
 
5) Receptive language disorder:
Problems in understanding what other people say; you hear the words but don’t process them as thoughts.

There are lots of other problems like non verbal learning disorder, visual processing disorder, motor skill disorder etc.

Learning disabled children may feel depressed, frustated, stressed when they are pressed to try harder by their parents. They would also feel down on themselves due to those failures and from taunting or humiliation from those who are impatient or intolerant.

Well, the parents and teachers would think that inspite of all their efforts, their child is not studying well or so !!! But, they just don’t investigate the root cause for the problem. Also there are other reasons like every parent wants his/her child to study well and come first in the class. They typically want their son/daughter to become an engineer or a doctor.All the above said problems can be easily corrected/treated if they are detected early and given adequate attention (from teachers or more so from parents). If not, it would just be the case like Ishaant and his father in the movie Taare Zameen Par. Of course every child in India is not lucky enough to get a teacher like Ram Shankar Nikum.

Parents should know that all these problems should not be treated as a disability but just as an inability which can be corrected in due course of time and attention.
Hope all the parents realize that their child is special or indeed “Every child is special”.

Well this is my blog after a long time on a worthy topic. As i know most of the readers of this blog wouldn’t be a parent right now. This blog is just for your future reference when you become one. And of course you can very well spread this awareness to other parents.