Background

Learning disabilities or learning difficulties is a general term for various types of individual difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, and arithmetic. This condition is not due to a physical and/or mental disability. also not because of environmental influences, but because of the individual's own difficulties in perceiving and processing objects that are captured by the senses (NCLD in Hallahan and Kauffman, 1988; Lerner, 2000). So, when viewed from the potential intelligence, those who have difficulty learning have average or above average intelligence. Thus, the level of intelligence is not a factor that influences learning disabilities. The condition of this learning disability is more because they experience perceptual disturbances, both in the visual (sight), auditory (hearing), and tactile-kinesthetic (groping) aspects.

As already mentioned, in the process of obtaining information, perception is a follow-up to sensory or sensing. Sensing is the process of capturing stimuli from the environment by means of the senses, while perception is to produce the meaning of what is sensed. Thus, hearing is a process of sensing, while listening (listening) is a process of perception. Likewise, seeing is a sensory process, while observing is a perceptual process. Being disturbed or obstructed by an individual in the process of perception means that the meaning of what he senses will be disturbed and obstructed. If this happens in a learning event, they will experience what is called learning disabilities.

Obstacles, disturbances, and errors of individuals in their perceptions result in errors in responding to the wrong perceptions that have been formed. Without proper handling, mistakes in the learning process and inaccurate understanding of the environment and their responses will continue until they are adolescents and adults. If the handling of individuals having learning disabilities in the learning process is not optimal, then the potential for intelligence and performance will also not be . Some of them actually still survive academically by successfully taking their education to university. However, not infrequently they still face problems in the process of responding and finding alternative solutions to the conditions and demands of their surrounding environment.

Their weak tendency in self-regulation and self-control makes their effort in responding to the demand of their surrounding environment are not up to finding alternative solutions to these demands. With these conditions, when individuals grow up and enter the world of work, they face significant challenges. Although they have the potential for intelligence and good performance, these potentials are not fully manifested optimally.

Academic and work challenges for individuals with learning disabilities include (1) making academic demands/rules and the world of work become their internal parts, so that they are going through the process without any burden, (2) build a responsive, cooperative, and solution-oriented work ethic through clear rules, instructions, and clear and gradual performance models.

Objectives

The objectives of the event are:

1. To raise awareness on the existence of individuals with learning disabilities as students in tertiary institutions;
2. To Identify and anticipate potential problems as an implication of the condition of students with learning disabilities studying in tertiary institutions;
3. To identify what needs to be done by the tertiary institutions to make the education more inclusive for people with learning disabilities; and
4. To explore ways in optimalizing the potential of students with learning disabilities in having good education and opportunities in the labour market.