With the growing awareness of children with specific learning disabilities the primary task confronting a teacher is successfully identifying assessing and providing remedial measures to the children in accordance to their specific problem. One has to look out for paradoxes a child who is unable to read but good at arithmetic, one whose spellings are confusing but who is up-to-date and informed about current events, science & history. The general education framework has a system of automatic promotion to next class irrespective of the marks obtained by the student. This leads the child to a class which may be much above his ability level, thus widening the discrepancy between the actual performance of the child & the expected performance of that class. Added to these is the various syllabi system, varied second languages, media of instruction and also a third language to be learnt. With the post school/college education having become so competitive in general, our children with hidden...