According to China News Network, with the arrival of final exams and winter vacation, the learning difficulties clinic of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics is "hard to find". "The child is inattentive in class and keeps making small movements", "The child has difficulty reading and writing", "The child's grades can't go up", ......Parents of students with these problems have come to the clinic to seek professional help. Since its opening in May 2022, the Learning Difficulties Clinic of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics has received more than 8,000 patients every year.
Coincidentally. Zou Xue, director of the Department of Adolescent Mental Health at Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, said that in recent years, more and more students have come to the hospital for treatment due to learning difficulties, and since its opening in November 2022, the Department of Adolescent Mental Health has received more than 6,000 visits, of which the outpatient clinics for disgust account for about one-third of the outpatient number, and the refusal to attend school can account for 70%.
The hospital has set up outpatient clinics for learning difficulties and even "No. 1 is hard to find", which has brought a series of problems. For example, is a child's unsatisfactory grades a learning difficulty? Are learning difficulties a disease? What are the circumstances? After seeing the learning difficulties clinic, can you make the "scumbag" counterattack into a "top student"? These are all questions that need to be treated with caution and answered scientifically.
Learning difficulties are a "consequence", and there is more than one reason for this "consequence". Genetics, psychology, health, methods, environment, nutrition, etc., may all be one of the reasons. Only those that really involve physical or mental problems, such as ADHD in children, mental depression, etc., can be counted as diseases. Treating learning difficulties caused by other causes as diseases in general and taking your child to the hospital for ** is a less responsible act that is not only useless but also harmful.
For example, a child who is taken to the learning difficulties clinic of a hospital by a parent thinks that there is a problem with the child, but the doctor finds that there is no problem after on-site questioning and assessment. In the end, I realized that in fact, it was the parents who often quarreled recently and ignored the children's feelings, so the children attracted their parents' attention with various learning problems. Obviously, it is not the children who are sick, but the parents. Parents mistakenly believe that their children are sick, which will cause psychological problems and psychological damage, which will further make it difficult for children to learn.
In reality, some parents think that learning difficulties are not a real problem, but a pseudo problem. If the child scores 90 points, parents think that failing to score 100 points is a learning difficulty, and it is normal to not see that the grades are sometimes high and sometimes low. Whether a child is physically and mentally healthy also depends on comprehensive evaluation indicators such as self-confidence, self-esteem, and interpersonal skills. Absolutely, rigidly, and statically recognizing and viewing a test result is the "flower of evil" on the tree of cognition, which can only bring harm to children. Parents who are too demanding and too anxious will make their children fall psychologically, and even fall into a state of collapse and self-abandonment.
In the actual consultation, many doctors found that the children's learning difficulties are not all caused by physical disabilities, but most of them are due to the inability to meet the high expectations of parents. Some children with learning difficulties are actually "trapped" in their parents' education methods. This warns us that parents must be cautious about learning difficulties, not to jump to conclusions about "illness", and not to think that their children are not sick or are pretending to be sick when they are really sick. Only after fully communicating with teachers and doctors can we seek a solution.
Don't treat learning difficulties as a disease, it's not a matter of avoiding medical treatment. On the contrary, if it is really found that the child's self-execution is affected by ADHD, medical intervention should be carried out as soon as possible, and early identification and early intervention are very important. Even so, it is necessary to take a harmonious family relationship and a relaxed family atmosphere as an important auxiliary. Practice has proved that this is very helpful for children's normal life and learning. The more anxious the parents, the worse the child's recovery will be. Parents must realize the importance of family education and family atmosphere, guide and educate their children to correct their learning attitudes, improve their self-control ability, realize the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor, and finally truly promote the healthy growth of children.
This article** China Education Daily, February 6, 2024, 02 edition.
The author of this article, Lei Zhongzhe, is a commentator.
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