Recently, the outpatient appointments for "learning difficulties" in the Pediatric Hospital affiliated to Fudan University have become very popular, which once became a hot topic in the society.
According to The Paper, the clinic opened in September 2020 and has been very popular so far, treating more than a thousand children in the past two years.
The doctor responded that the outpatient clinic is first to help parents figure out what is the cause of their child's learning difficulties, and then symptomatic treatment and comprehensive treatment.
The effect of treatment varies from person to person. Some children can improve the status quo, and some "students" become "students".
It is understandable for parents to seek professional medical help for children with learning difficulties.
It is not difficult to find from the reports that the "learning difficulties" clinic is to provide children with drug treatment, behavioral therapy and rehabilitation training, but people are overly superstitious about this method, and the following problems may occur: the child's "learning difficulties" are regarded as a kind of " disease”, is it completely scientific to treat it specifically?
With the limited effect of the drug, will this cause excessive panic in parents and cognitive bias in children?
Is the successful case of "student scum" becoming a "student tyrant" worthy of widespread admiration by parents, and will it create new educational anxiety?
And how should family education catch a child who "deviates from the standard"?
Students' learning difficulty is an objective educational phenomenon, and its causes are multi-faceted, mainly including innate quality and acquired environment.
In educational psychology, children with special needs are generally divided into supernormal children, children with mental retardation, children with sensory disabilities, children with learning disabilities, and children with emotional or behavioral disabilities. potential group.
In addition, the external environment may also cause children's learning difficulties, such as the "adaptation disorder" caused by the stressful school environment, the "anxiety and depression" caused by the intense social competition environment, and the "parent-child conflict" caused by the acute family conflict... any One, may make the child's learning "deviate from the standard".
Because of the complexity and variety of causes, learning difficulties should not be simply defined as a "disease", and naturally there is no such thing as a "panacea". Parents do not need to regard registered consultation as a "life-saving straw" and try to solve it once and for all. Let the child complete the academic counterattack.
Taking "ADHD" children as an example, they mainly have the characteristics of inattention, excessive activity, impulsive willfulness and poor self-control.
The best solution is to give children adequate care, give reasonable guidance to excess energy, strengthen concentration training, make children’s lives more regular, develop good behavior habits, and help them build up self-esteem and self-confidence. .
Obviously, this cannot be achieved overnight. It requires parents to have scientific educational concepts and sufficient patience.
There is a child with learning difficulties in the class that the author takes. After entering high school, his grades are mediocre, which is far from his junior high school performance and does not meet the expectations of his parents.
In a hurry, the parents reported their children to classes to make up lessons, but found that they did not help. After a period of psychological treatment and drug treatment in the hospital, not only did the results have little effect, but the children's school weariness became more and more serious.
In a conversation, I found that it was the parents' expectations of their children's success that made them rebellious and obsessed with video games and online anime.
In this case, I guided him to divert his attention and reduce his reliance on games, while concentrating on learning knowledge and building up self-confidence in learning, and the situation gradually improved.
It can be seen that to solve the problem of students' learning difficulties, it is still necessary to focus on individual differences, not only to listen to the scientific advice of professional outpatient doctors, but also to find the reasons from various aspects, and to prescribe the right medicine for a long time.
The outburst of "learning difficulties" outpatient clinics just exposed the decline of family education methods and herd mentality in the face of children's learning difficulties.
In the face of children with learning difficulties, parents and teachers should analyze the specific situation, establish a correct development concept, rationally recognize the differences in children's learning ability, accurately assess the children's behavior problems, formulate personalized education and training programs, and in behavior. During the correction process, respect the child's cognition and give him due warmth and care.
(The author is a teacher of Lanzhou No. 51 Middle School)
Qiang Deping Source: China Youth Daily