Academic Resilience among Students with Learning Disabilities: Contributing Factors and Strategies

Abstract

Academic resilience is considered a crucial factor in students’ educational adversity. It implies the ability to achieve success despite facing significant academic challenges. Learning disabled students, who often face academic, social, and emotional hurdles, fostering resilience among them can be a helpful hand to overcome the hurdles and can enhance their educational outcomes. Existing literature indicates that students with learning disabilities frequently experience lower self-esteem and high level of anxiety, which hamper their academic performance. In this case, protective factors such as strong self-belief, effective coping strategies, motivation, well-being, and supportive relationships with adults and peers can significantly strengthen resilience. These factors help in mitigating the detrimental impact of learning disabilities by promoting academic engagement and motivation during learning. The present study aims to highlight the importance of academic resilience for students with learning disabilities (SLD) by examining its contributing factors, and emphasizing how these factors help the students (SLD) to cope with academic challenges and achieve success. Additionally, this study explored effective strategies for fostering academic resilience in students with learning disabilities.