"I'm in the first grade of primary school, and I can't learn pinyin. At about 9 o'clock on the 21st, in the learning difficulties clinic of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Ms. Li was very anxious and took her son to ask for help from the doctor. At this time, there are still 3 pairs of children and their parents waiting in the waiting area. Zhang Lili, deputy chief physician of the Children's Health Center of the First Children's Institute, said that during the winter vacation, the clinic was fully booked every time, and an average of about 30 children with learning difficulties were treated every week. She reminded that learning difficulties do not mean that there are intellectual problems, and parents are asked to look at their children's academic performance rationally.
Zhang Lili is 6 years old this year in the Internet outpatient clinic of the learning difficulty clinic, and studying is particularly "painful" for him. Ms. Li reluctantly said that last semester, he practiced addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 20 every day, but he is still counting with his fingers and has not been able to master oral arithmetic. Literacy is also a "roadblock" on the road to learning, and the newly learned Chinese characters will be forgotten completely after a day.
Will you write your homework during the winter vacation? Faced with the inquiry of Lu Heyang, the doctor on duty at the outpatient clinic, he replied in a low voice that he couldn't write, lowered his head, and played with buttons. Ms. Li said that her eldest son, who is in his second year of junior high school, is at the top of his class, but he is far behind his brother in his studies, and she is worried about whether the child has intellectual problems.
After learning more about Mingming's daily behavior and interpersonal relationships, Lu Heyang told Ms. Li that the child had no intellectual problems, but only a deficit in attention, which led to learning difficulties. "The child is not an intellectual problem, it may be ADHD and needs further testing. He said.
At about 10 o'clock, Ms. Song hurriedly walked into the clinic with her son Xinxin. Xinxin is in the fourth grade of primary school this year, and when it comes to studying, he has a "headache", he is not interested in learning at all, and he is too lazy to write his homework during the winter vacation. After being diagnosed with learning difficulties in the hospital in her hometown in Henan, Ms. Song was still worried about her child's backward intellectual development, so she made a special trip to Beijing for diagnosis. After Lu Heyang's comprehensive judgment, Xinxin only suffered from mild attention deficit problems.
Zhang Lili said that during the winter vacation, some parents often come to the learning difficulties clinic because their children have poor academic performance and are worried that their children have intellectual problems. In fact, learning difficulties do not mean that the child has intellectual problems. More than 60% of the children seen in this clinic have attention problems. Most of the remaining children have emotional problems, such as excessive psychological stress near exams.
Judging whether it is a learning difficulty should not only look at short-term results. Zhang Lili said that if the child's grades fluctuate in the first month or two of school, it may be that the state has not been adjusted well; If your child continues to have a full semester and does not achieve satisfactory grades, it is advisable to seek help from a medical professional and, if learning difficulties are diagnosed, to receive targeted learning**. Of course, the learning difficulties clinic is not a panacea, and improving academic performance requires the joint efforts of schools and parents. ”
**: Beijing**client reporter Wang Yaoqi, Chai Rong
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