SENSE OF WORTHINESS AMONG THE CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY

Sense of worthiness is a psychic experience. It is individual’s self-worth, self respect, self-regard and self-integrity. Children with Specific Learning Disability often left alone and end up with low sense of worthiness. The objective was to assess the level of low sense of worthiness among the Children with Specific Learning Disability. An explanatory study was conducted at Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. 268 Children with Specific Learning Disability were selected through the stratified random sampling process. The tool which was applied to measure their low sense of worthiness though Rosenberg (1965). The study found that majority of the Children with Specific Learning Disability (76.6%) was found with low sense of worthiness. Therefore they experienced poor academic performance in their academic task. Socio-economic factors like age, parent’s education and income are not influenced the low sense of worthiness among the Children with Specific Learning Disability. It also reflected on that their academic backwardness reflect as low self-esteem.