{"id":11707,"date":"2018-12-31T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?p=11707"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:13:02","slug":"how-children-with-school-learning-difficulties-compensate-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/how-children-with-school-learning-difficulties-compensate-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"How children with school learning difficulties compensate at school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px;\">They develop an excellent auditory memory and remember everything they hear.<\/li>\n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They have an excellent visual memory for whole words meaning they never need to decode to read and can visualise images and diagrams used in class.<\/li>\n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They ask other students to help them and explain things to them.<\/li>\n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They avoid being found out and take every opportunity to gain an advantage to make their life easier.<\/li> \n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They never want to be labelled the dumb kid because they know in their heart of hearts, they are not dumb.<\/li>\n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They work incredibly long hours at home; revising class content, rereading and rewriting notes, doing what takes other children no time at all or just 30 minutes or more.<\/li>\n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They have a family member who is reteaching and assisting them at home, reading their class novels and textbooks with them.<\/li>\n\n<li style=\"font-size: 160%; line-height: 30px; line-spacing: 30px; padding-top: 15px;\">They never give up because they are super smart and use their creativity and big- picture thinking to find a way to learn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They develop an excellent auditory memory and remember everything they hear. They have an excellent visual memory for whole words meaning they never need to decode to read and can visualise images and diagrams used in class. They ask other students to help them and explain things to them. They... <br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/how-children-with-school-learning-difficulties-compensate-at-school\/\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":15777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11725,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions\/11725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}