ABSTRACT
Any book about slow learners must first try to define what a ‘slow learner’ is. The term ‘slow learner’ is generally regarded in a derogatory sense. Slow to learn what? In most cases the slow learner is so described because he fails to learn at the same rate as the majority of other pupils learn. He fails to learn, in an academic setting, what teachers feel he should learn. He is not slow at covering up a depressing home situation, or a particular learning difficulty, or the fact that his father is in prison. It is usually the reverse. He is very adept at covering up things of that nature.
