Glossary-Items: Letter L
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Learning arrangement
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The term learning arrangement refers to learning environments or opportunities that provide an educational and methodological framework for learners that facilitates many different kinds of self-directed learning.
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Learning diary
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Learning diaries are a useful way for learners to regularly and independently reflect on and document their own learning processes and outcomes.
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Learning Disorders
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Learning disorders are neurologically based developmental disorders. Affected children and adolescents experience persistent and severe difficulties in learning to read, write, spell, or perform arithmetic. Despite these difficulties, their general cognitive ability is not impaired.
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Learning skills
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Learning competencies refer to the methods and skills that are necessary for acquiring knowledge. These include, for example, knowing how knowledge can be structured, what learning strategies there are and how they are used, how to read and write texts in a structured way, etc. Cognitively gifted children and adolescents also rely on their learning competencies and skills to access complex topics and to comprehend new areas of knowledge.
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Learning Therapy
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Learning therapy is targeted educational and psychological support for children, adolescents, and adults with learning disorders in reading, writing, or math. Gifted children and adolescents can also benefit from learning therapy if they have a learning disorder.