**5. Causes of learning impairments**

#### • **Slow Learners**

10 Learning Disabilities

• Inability to hear small differences between sounds, not attributable to a hearing loss,

• Inability to transfer basic mathematical concepts to solve problems with unpredictable

• Extremely weak ability to solve problems, particularly when information or procedure

• Extreme difficulty recognizing, transforming, or using specific information to reach

**4.4.3 Written expression skills** 

• Extremely poor alignment

**4.4.4 Οral language skills** 

**4.4.5 Mathematical skills** 

information

**4.4.6 Memory skills** 

**4.4.7 Reasoning skills** 

is unfamiliar.

general conclusions.

• Poor mathematical fluency

• Poor basic calculation skills

• Unable to compose complete, grammatical sentences

• Inability to take notes or copy information from a book or the board • Oral expression is noticeably stronger than written expression

• Difficulty organizing written information

• Extremely weak proofreading skills

particularly vowel sounds

• Difficulty pronouncing words

• Disorganized recall of facts or details

• Difficulty memorizing multiplication tables • Difficulty identifying multiples and/or factors

• Poor understanding of mathematical concepts • Difficulty sorting out irrelevant information • Lower visual perceptual and visual-spatial ability

• Difficulty articulating thoughts or ideas orally

• Inability to blend sounds together to form words

• Difficulty listening and responding to a series of directions

• Difficulty understanding word or application problems

• Inability to use basic facts within more complex calculations

• Extremely weak ability to store and retrieve information efficiently • Extremely weak ability to hold information for immediate use

• Poor writing fluency

• Poor handwriting

Quite often slow learners are confused with reluctant learners. It is claimed that though they are willing to learn, they have problems with the process. This is due to four specific factors (Table 3)


Table 3. Factors influencing slow-learners Source: Author's research team.

#### • **Learning Disorders**


#### • **Learning Difficulties**

	- Genetic Influences
	- Brain Development
	- Environmental impacts
