Mai Educational Psychologist | Centre for Learning Difficulty

Mai Education Consult

LEARNING DISABILITY ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION | EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST SERVICE

Our centre for learning disability assessment and evaluation focus on powering and giving hope to individual with learning difficulty. This services is made up of educational psychologist, educational evaluators and other mix up professional to provide early intervention services to children, youngster and adult with learning disability

We also provide a major support for children with deficiency which affects individual's ability to achieve good academic performance. It manifests itself in the learning process where individual is require to use language either spoken or written. It affects individual in one or more psychological ability to listen, think, write, motor skill, non verbal, speak, organize information, read, and spell or do mathematical calculations. If not treated at the early stage of individual development, it becomes a challenge at higher stage of learning.

"Learning Disability refers to a neurobiological disorder in one or more basic processess involve in understanding spoken or written language"

The current research in 2015 shows that 19% of student with learning disabilities in senior high has been drop out from school.

If a child is provided with the right support and intervention, he/she with learning disabilities can succeed in school and have a successful and distinguish career later in life. Parent and teachers can help.

SERVICES
Dyslexia is associated with specific learning disabilities in reading

Dyscalculia is associated with specific learning disabilities in math

Dysgraphia is associated with specific learning disabilities in writing

Auditory Processing Deficit is associated to weakness in the ability to understand and use auditory information

Visual Processing Deficit is associated weakness in the ability to understand and use visual information

Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities is associated to individuals who have unique learning and behavioral profiles that may overlap with dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia but that differ in significant ways.

Executive Functioning is associated to weaknesses in the ability to plan, organize, strategize, remember details and manage time and space efficiently.

Deficits, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a brain-based disorder that results in significant inattention, hyperactivity, distractibility or a combination of these characteristics

Motor coordination difficulty is associated the inability to perform motor coordinated activities such as jumping, running, catching, throwing

Emotional Disability is the ability to interacted and related well with others and exhibiting of unfavorable behavior

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST SERVICES
Our educational psycho logiest services are major part of our learning disabilities assessment and evaluation service. We provide help children or young people who are experiencing problems within an educational setting with the aim of enhancing their learning. We provide range of psychological and educational assessment techniques to help these children.

The sorts of work we do
• We work together with the staff of nurseries, schools and other organizations, to develop and improve the life chances of children and young people.

• We work directly with children and young people. This work usually focuses on observation and assessment to provide information and advice that will help those who have responsibility for the child's care and education.

• We involved in discussions (consultation) about individual children without necessarily meeting them. The aim is to provide advice to those who have day to day responsibility

for meeting the child's educational needs because these adults are in the best position

The vast majority of children and adults, school has been a place of psychological and often physical torture, School for them was destructive and humiliating, nasty, degrading experience, sometimes of raw brutality, of which modern society should be deeply ashamed of.

In Ghana, there are very few possibilities for screening and testing on SpLD. The Ghana Education Service (GES) does not have the facilities to screen, and provides little targeted support to children with learning difficulties. As a result, there is not much information on children with Specific Learning Disabilities in Ghana. Statistics from other countries however suggest that up to 10% of children in any population have a specific learning disability.

Majority of children on the streets have been to school but have dropped out at an early stage. The learning levels of many of these children are far below the level they should have attained in school. The pattern is that they mostly drop out from Primary level (majority from Primary class 3). These children are mostly called slow learners

The Children Act (560) 1998, the Disability Act (715) 2006, Education Act (778) 2008, Juvenile Justice Act (653) 2003 and UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are relevant laws in Ghana that protect the rights of children including those with learning difficulties

CONTACT US
Mai Education Consult
Correspondent / administrative contact, CIBE
Floor 7, Heritage Towers,
6th Avenue Ridge, Accra, Ghana, West Africa
Mobile no: +233 0204101335, 0201963066|
Email: [email protected]