Learning Disabilities

Do You Know the Symptoms?

Statistics on Learning Disabilities.

• A learning disability is not a cause of intellectual abilities.

• National Institute of Health Learning Disabilities, effect “15 percent of US population. 1 in 7 have some form of learning disability; 80 percent of students have reading

problems.”

What is a Learning Disability

• A learning disability is a condition that effects the brain neurologically. When the brain has different wiring with a learning disability, Children face difficulties academically in subjects and functions such as reading, writing, spelling, and processing information.

Common Types of Learning Disabilities

Dyslexia- Confuse letters that have a similar appearance.

Dys-graphia- Difficulty Writing

Dyscalculia- Difficulty in math

Auditory and visual processing- is a sensory disability which causes the child to have difficulty forming letters or understand language without having hearing issues.

Non-verbal Disability- Neurological disorder which originates in the Temporal hemisphere causes problems with visual, spatial, intuitive, organizational, evaluative and holistic processing.” (Ld Online)

Symptoms of a Learning Disability

• Trouble Rhyming• Delayed Language skills

• Baby talk • Difficulty learning letters in simple words

• Difficulty learning numbers• Confusion in words that sound alike• Difficulty following instructions.

How to Help Your Child

Make an appointment to have your child’s hearing tested.

Support your child because it is not easy to have a learning disability.

Be an advocate for your child by talking to the teacher, requesting a second textbook,

Practice reading aloud, play games on outings.

How to Help Your Child Continued

• Build up his or her self esteem

• give him or her praise for their efforts.

• Use visual aids to help them to be able to finish assignments.

Please Keep in Mind

• Learning disabilities are neurological.

Your child did not get this disability due to lack of being smart or having a weakness intellectually, it has to do with how the brain is wired.

• Your child has the ability to learn, but it takes patience, and an understanding that your child has the ability to learn but they have to use different

strategies to learn.