One should remember that not every time that a student isn't keeping up with the class is there a learning disability. At times, it is probable that the learning gap has been caused by faulty teaching, inappropriate exercises, insufficient openness or trust between the student and teacher, insufficient command of the instructor or teacher of the material being learned and its methods of teaching. In other cases, the student's learning deficit can be a result of serious emotional problems, such as those resulting from difficult family circumstances, e.g., orphancy, divorce, socioeconomic difficulties, abuse, etc... Therefore, one should be given a differential evaluation by means of appropriate diagnostic measures (didactic, psychological, and alternative medicine methods) in order to establish not only the amount of the learning deficit and its characteristics, but also the cause of this gap.
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