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| Published: September 18, 2020

Development of learning disability inventory for teachers

Lidiya Silvester

Assistant Psychologist, Dept. of Psychology, Avinashiligam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.091/20200803

DOI: 10.25215/0803.091

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Learning disability is a condition in which the person might have inability to understand new or complex information, difficulties in writing, reading, mathematics and might also have impaired social functioning with average or above average intelligence. The information proves that there are not many questionnaires and inventories to assess the learning disability in India. Majority of the questionnaires and inventories are mainly screen whether the child has learning disability or the type of learning disability such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, or nonverbal learning disabilities. So, the present study is to develop an inventory to find out the level of learning difficulty of the child. To establish content validity and reliability 600 students ranging from 7 years to 20 years were chosen by random sampling method. Based on the mean and standard deviation, the norms were established. As a result, the questionnaire can be used to measure the level of learning disability of students from 7 to 20 years.

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Lidiya Silvester @ christephermathew123@gmail.com

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.091/20200803

10.25215/0803.091

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Published in   Volume 08, Issue 3, July-September, 2020