Learning Disabilities -Homoeopathic Management

Dr Teenu S

ABSTRACT:
Learning disability is a disorder of the basic physiological processes involved in using or understanding language written or spoken which manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations.

KEYWORDS: Learning disabilities, homoeopathy, impaired memory

INTRODUCTION:
A learning disability (LD) is a neurobiological disorder that presents as a serious difficulty with reading, arithmetic, and/ or written expression that is unexpected for the individual’s intellectual ability.1

The learning problems significantly interfere with academic achievement or activities of daily living that require reading, mathematical or writing skills. Besides the integral difficulty in learning, it is seen that the family, school, sociocultural milieu and education play a significant influence in the ultimate outcome of learning in children, It includes Dyslexia, dysgraphia and Dyscalculia.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th edition (DSM-5) labels this group of disorders as specific learning disorder with impairment in reading, or with impairment in written expression, or with impairment in mathematics.

PREVALENCE:
The prevalence of LD depends upon the definition and varies from study to study. Dyslexia is perhaps the most common neurobehavioral disorder affecting children, with prevalence 5–17.5%. Prevalence rates for reading disorder are estimated at 4% of school-age children, with a range of 2–10. International epidemiological studies report a prevalence of 4–17% for dyslexia, 2–8% for dysorthography and 1–5% for dyscalculia.

Facilities Available for Children with Learning Disability:

Children evaluated fully and diagnosed as learning disabled by a registered psychologist can avail of many facilities. The psychologist has to make the recommendations suitable for the child and these recommendations are then forwarded to the relevant board of education through the school. Many educational boards recognize the difficulties faced by these children and are sympathetic to their plight.

  • Second language exemptions are provided for children with dyslexia
  • Extra time for board examinations is available
  • Provision of scribes for children with dysgraphia
  • Use of calculators in the examinations for children with dyscalculia

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES:

1. AMMONIUM CARBONICUM:

    • Great absence of mind and weakness of memory.
    • Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, in writing, or in calculating.
    • Impairment of the intellectual faculties.

2. BARTYA CARBONICUM:

  • Incessant activity
  • Great weakness of memory, to studies in children
  • Deficient memory-children cannot remember and learn
  • Cannot comprehend, cannot memorise and cannot maintain a thought.

3) MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA:

  • State of mental abstraction and inadvertence, as if plunged in meditation, with diminished comprehension.
  • A sort of stupidity, and apathy to pleasure and to external objects.
  • Desire for different things, which, when once possessed, are no longer cared for.
  • Tendency to misapply words when speaking or writing.

4) KALIUM BROMATUM:

  • Memory absolutely destroyed; anaemia; emaciation.
  • Loss of memory; had to be told the word before he could speak it (amnesic aphasia).
  • Inability to express oneself.
  • Writing almost unintelligible from omission of words or parts of words; words repeated or misplaced.
  • Mentally dull, torpid; perception slow, answers slowly.
  • Benumbed sensation of brain.

5) KALIUM PHOSPHORICUM:

  • Cannot recall names or words; mind sluggish, but will act if aroused.
  • Extreme lassitude and depression; apprehensive.
  • Loss of memory.
  • Exhaustion after moderate mental effort.
  • Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate; tongue feels thick.

6) LACHESIS:

  • Great apathy and extraordinary weakness of memory, everything that is heard is, as it were, effaced, even orthography is no longer remembered, and there is forgetfulness even of things on the point of utterance.
  • Confusion as to time.
  • Mistakes are made in speaking and writing, as well as in the hours of the day and the days of the week.
  • Imbecility and loss of every mental faculty.

7) LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM:

  • Fatigue from intellectual exertion, and incapability of devotion to mental labour.
  • Giddiness Inability to express oneself correctly; misapplication of words and syllables.
  • Confused speech. Confusion about everyday things, but rational talking on abstract subjects.
  • Inability to remember what is read. Stupefaction.

8) NUX VOMICA:

  • Incapacity for meditation; tendency to misapply words when speaking;
  • Difficulty in finding suitable expressions.
  • Mistaking weights and measures.
  • Weak memory. frequent confusion when writing, with omission of syllables, or entire words.

9) ZINCUM METALLICUM:

  • Weakness of memory.
  • Forgetfulness (forgets what has been accomplished during the day).
  • Weak memory with stinging pains in head.
  • Unconquerable drowsiness after prolonged night-watching.Absence of ideas.
  • Difficult conception.
  • Incoherent ideas.
  • Thoughtlessness and dullness of intellect.
  • Child repeats all questions before answering them.

10) SUMBULUS MOSCHATUS:

  • Intellect dull in morning;
  • Inability to study; clearer in evening and in warmth.
  • Happy disposition with continued smiling;
  • expression idiotic.

11) LAC CANNINUM:

  • Finds it very difficult to read understandingly anything requiring a mental effort to follow it.
  • Very restless; cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read;wants to leave everything as soon as it is commenced.
  • When speaking, substitutes the name of the object seen for that which is thought.
  • Cannot remember what she reads, but can remember other things.
  • In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones; very nervous.
  • Absent-minded.

12) ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE:

  • Weakness of mind and of memory.
  • Loss of memory.
  • Brain fag Soon forgets everything; consciousness of forgetfulness takes away appetite.
  • Weakness of all the senses.
  • Absence of ideas.

13) STRAMONIUM :

  • Loss of memory (loses thoughts before she can utter them; calls things by wrong names).
  • Dullness of all the senses, insensibility to external influences (insensibility to mental impressions).
  • Dizziness, with internal agitation.
  • Conversing in different languages.
  • Talking in Jewish jargon.

14) XEROPHYLLUM ASPHODELOIDES:

  • Dull, cannot concentrate mind for study; forgets names; writes last letters of words first; misspells common words.

15) SELENIUM METALLIUM:

  • Excessive forgetfulness, esp. in matters of business. Great forgetfulness when awake, with distinct recollection during half sleep.
  • A kind of stammering; he uses syllables of words in wrong connections, therefore pronounces some words incorrectly.
  • Difficult comprehension.
  • Absolute incapacity to execute any business what-ever.

16) POPULUS CANDICANS:

  • Vanishing of thought.
  • Forgets to finish a sentence.
  • Voices sound distant and words just spoken seem as if uttered long ago; objects seem multiplied.

17) PEDICULUS CAPITIS:

  • Entire carelessness about present or future.
  • – Disposition for study; quick of apprehension; eager for work; writes with feverish rapidity.

18) OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI:

  • Cannot think or concentrate his thoughts.
  • Very forgetful of familiar words and names.
  • Disinclination to talk or study.
  • Wants to be alone.
  • A feeling as if I would lose consciousness.
  • All symptoms agg. when thinking of them.

19) MELILOTUS OFFCINALIS:

  • Indolent unable to fix mind , stupid , indifferent.
  • Total inability to study , memory will not retain anything
  • Omits words and letters in writing.
  • Loss of consciousness.

20) CANNABIS SATIVA:

  • In writing, many errors are made.
  • Vanishing of thoughts.
  • Want of words.
  • Ideas seem to stand still; he stares in front of him; is absorbed in higher thoughts, but is unconscious of them.

RUBRIC HUNTING

HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL  REPERTORY- Dr Robin Murphy

  • CHILDREN-Concentration difficult-studying, reading while
  • CHILDREN-Dyslexia
  • CHILDREN-Dullness, mental, children
  • CHILDREN-Learning Disabilities, understanding, difficult
  • CHILDREN-Slowness mental
  • MIND- Reading, agg ,symptoms from -unable, to read- children in

REPERTORIUM HOMOEOPATHICUM SYNTHETICUM

  • MIND , Dyslexia
  • MIND , Memory, weakness of memory , children in
  • MIND, Memory weakness of memory , expressing oneself for
  • MIND , Answering , slowly
  • MIND, Mistakes making, reading in , reversing letters and words
  • MIND , Mistakes making , writing in

THE COMPLETE REPERTORY

  • MIND , MISTAKES , making ; reading; words look queer and are spelled wrong thinks
  • MIND , MISTAKES , making spelling in
  • MIND , DYSLEXIA
  • MIND , MISTAKES , making ; talking in ; words , wrong ; omitting
  • MIND , LEARNING ; difficult ; learns same thing over and over again yet remains untrained
  • SPEECH & VOICE , STAMERRING speech , children in
  • SPEECH & VOICE , STAMERRING speech ,vowels with consonants combining

REFERENCES:

  • PG Textbooks of PEDIATRICS, volume 1-Piyush Gupta, PSN Menon, Siddarth Ramji, Rakesh Lodha.
  • Kondhalkar AK, Nerlekar MA, Jadhav AB. A Single blind singlearm clinical study to see the effect of constitutional homoeopathic medicines in the management of learning disabilities viz dyslexia and dysgraphia of age group 6-15 years. Int J Health Sci Res. 2020;10(3):90-3.
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  • Pocket manual of homeopathic materia medica and repertory – Dr.william boericke
  • Lectures on Homeopathic materia medica-James Tyler kent
  • Homoeopathic Medical Repertory -Dr Robin Murphy
  • Repertorium Homoeopathicum Syntheticum – Fredrieck schroyens
  • Complete Repertory – Roger Van Zandwoort

Dr Teenu S
PG Scholar, Department of Materia Medica
Government Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Bengaluru-560079
teenuaru27@gmail.com

Under the Guidance of :
Dr. Jyoti A Moolabharati MD(Hom)
Associate Professor, Department of Materia Medica
Government Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Bengaluru-560079

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