Education of Children with Learning Disabilities from the Social and Cultural Perspective

AbstractThis article describes two contradictory discourses on learning disabilities, namely the medical and the socio-cultural one. The former looks for causes of learning difficulties in the learning process itself and analyzes them in categories of developmental deficits, which need to be corrected. The latter approach seeks the causes in the social and cultural context of learners’ lives. Thus, in order to help students in their development, it is necessary to change the learning context in such a way that it will correspond to different learning abilities and needs of students. In reference to the socio-cultural discourse, the article presents the guidelines for the education of children who experience learning failure at school