During this time, students from all over the country began their summer vacation life one after another. "Learning difficulties" outpatient clinics in Beijing, Shanghai and other places have also ushered in a peak of visits. Is poor academic performance a "learning difficulty"? How to distinguish between "learning difficulties" and not studying hard? Let's take a look at how to treat "learning difficulties" from a medical perspective.
Shanghai Children's Hospital is one of the first hospitals in mainland China to open specialized outpatient clinics related to "learning difficulties", and it ushers in a peak of visits every winter and summer vacation. According to the doctor, in medicine, "learning difficulty" in the narrow sense is actually a kind of learning skill development disorder, including mathematical learning disability, dysgraphia, dyslexia, etc. With the gradual deepening of people's understanding of children's learning disabilities, many hospitals across the country have opened specialized outpatient clinics such as "learning difficulties clinic" and "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder clinic".
Outside the "learning difficulties" clinic of Shanghai Children's Hospital, the reporter met Mr. Gao, who came with his child. He said that his daughter is 9 years old this year, and she is lively and smart on weekdays, but she is not energetic when it comes to studying, and she always works against the teacher, and her grades are not ideal.
Zhang Yuanyuan, deputy chief physician of Shanghai Children's Hospital, said that "learning difficulties" may be caused by a variety of conditions, and it is not simply "children do not want to learn".
Zhang Yuanyuan, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Child Health Medicine, Shanghai Children's Hospital: "Learning difficulties" is actually a symptom diagnosis, which refers to the backwardness of children's learning skills caused by various reasons, such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. The second type of child, although intellectual, eyesight, and hearing are normal, has great difficulties in reading and writing, such as reading often not fluently, missing words, and serial. There is also a group of children who are relatively backward in the development of various abilities since childhood, and belong to the situation of mental retardation.
ADHD is the main cause of "learning difficulties".
During the interview, the reporter noticed that some "learning difficulties" clinics also hung up the sign of "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Clinic". Experts said that the current incidence of ADHD in mainland China is about 5% in children, and 80% of children who come to consult with learning difficulties have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder after professional examination.
Wandering in class, careless in exams, procrastination in homework, and loss of things are all phenomena that many primary school students have. Child psychiatrists say that if a child continues to have these conditions for a long time, they should not be taken lightly, and it is likely to be a symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which is commonly known as "ADHD".
According to doctors, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder generally have normal intelligence, and some children even have abnormal IQ, as long as they use drugs rationally under the guidance of doctors and cooperate with attention training, children's grades will be significantly improved in the short term. (Source: CCTV News)