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2. Below the level of their natural abilities
Educational deficiency
Reasoning ability is inferior to normal
children
Term backwardness is used to denote
any children who does not progress at a
rate corresponding to his abilities

4. “Child who is unable to cope with
the work normally expected of his
age group”.
-Burt

6. • His educational attainment falls below his natural abilities
• He falls far behind other children of his age in matter of study
• He is necessarily a failure in the academic field

7. Kinds of Backwardness
1. General Backwardness
2. Specific Backwardness

8. Causes of Backwardness
Physical and Physiological factors
Intellectual factors
Family factors
School factors
Social factors

9. Identification of Slow Learners
 Physical Characteristics
 Mental Characteristics
 Social and Moral Characteristics

10. Tools and Techniques to Identify
Achievement test and Diagnostic tests
Intelligence test
Other psychological test
Medical examination
Student record

14. How to monitor these students better?
Picture book
Pear group
Heterogeneous group
Playing games
Multi media instruction
Computer assisted teaching

16. Tell me and I forget,
Teach me and I learn,
Involve me and I remember.