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Why Students Struggle
Many children struggle in school because they lack the underlying cognitive skills to be efficient learners. About 85 to 90 percent of learning difficulties are due to poor underlying learning skills. These skills include:
- Attention/Concentration: the ability to stay on task or ignore distractions. For example, continuing to read a book while another group is in a discussion.
- Phonemic awareness: the ability to blend sounds, segment (unglue) sounds, and analyze sounds. Problems with reading new words or spelling errors in writing result from poor phonemic awareness.
- Memory: the ability to recall short or long-term information. For example, copying from a board (short term) or taking a final history exam (long term).
- Comprehension: the ability to understand what you hear or read.
- Visualization: the ability to create mental pictures. For example, seeing "in the mind" a math word problem before trying to solve it.
- Processing Speed: the ability to handle and process information quickly.