{"id":2976,"date":"2022-03-21T04:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T04:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapeuticliteracycenter.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2024-11-02T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T19:32:55","slug":"learning-style-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapeuticlearning.com\/learning-style-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Style Difference vs Learning Difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The overarching role of any teacher and parent is to help their children learn how to be life-long learners. But what if a child has trouble learning? Students in grades K-3 now are learning in areas where information and technologies are changing every month. \u00a0If they are having difficulty mastering \u2018the basics\u2019 and seem unable to use these building blocks to move forward, they\u2019re at risk for developing a low self-esteem early on. Later in life they may be unable to effectively train in a career of their choosing.<\/p>\n

Before making an assumption that a child has a learning disability it\u2019s important to make the distinction between a different learning style and a learning difficulty. \u00a0Individuals each experience the world in a unique way due to their different perception abilities. Individuals each process or act on information in unique ways due to their different ordering abilities. Our perception and ordering abilities can be considered what determines our learning style.<\/p>\n

The Gregorc<\/strong> model<\/strong> is a widely used method to delineate learning style. Developed by Anthony F. Gregorc and Kathleen A. Butler, it is based upon the abilities of perception and ordering. Specifically, there are two generalized perceptual qualities: concrete and abstract, and there are two generalized ordering qualities: sequential and random.<\/p>\n