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DEALING WITH ANGER

Anger is a perfectly natural emotion. Everyone gets angry at some time or another. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems --- problems at work, in one’s personal relationships, and in overall quality of life. And it can make one feel as though one is at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion. However, how we behave when we are angry is something that can be and should be controlled or changed. There are times when one gets angry and don’t know what to do with oneself after one has snapped at someone in the situation. It is not wrong to feel angry but it is wrong to take out one’s anger on others. One needs to change one’s behaviour while angry instead of suppressing one’s emotion --- like “ I feel angry when you keep taking my pencil. I wish you bring extra ones from home” --- instead of screaming at someone in the class and making one’s point. 1:0 What Is Anger: Anger is “an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irrita

LEARNING DISABILITIES

The term learning disability refers to many different types of learning issues that can vary widely in levels of severity. Students with a learning disability have at least average intelligence. They have areas of high functioning and areas of difficulties. Their learning disabilities are not caused by problem, such as vision or hearing impairments, or by primary emotional disturbance, and their challenges are not the result of poor schooling. Students with learning disabilities take in information, such as sights or sounds, but may have difficulty understanding or attaching meaning to it. They find it hard to organize information so that it is readily accessible. Retrieving the information from either short or long term memory is difficult. In addition, expressing the information, either verbally through speech or writing, or nonverbally may be a problem. Students with learning disabilities often exhibit wide discrepancies between different skills areas, in other words, they may be g