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Learning Disability ...

For those parents and teachers who have observed and worked with children with learning disabilities there are numerous characteristics that they all share in common. Although highly unlikely that one child will possess all of these, the probability of learning disability increases with the presence of additional sign.

1. He is a child of normal intelligence, but is unable to learn; he is a child whose vision is normal, but appears unable to see; he is a child whose learning is normal but appears not to listen.
2. ACTIVITY: The child will have difficulty sitting still even for short periods of time, but then may sit, do nothing, and appear to be "day dreaming".
3. PERCEPTUAL MOTOR DIFFICULTIES
4. GROSS MOTOR COORDINATION: The child appears to be clumsy, bumps into large objects, hops and / or skips with difficulty.
5. FINE MOTOR COORDINATION: The child appears awkward while holding pens, pencils, crayons or using scissors.
6. IMPULSIVENESS: The child’s attention span seems short and he is easily distracted. May wander pointlessly in the classroom and bother other children.
7. INABILITY TO FORMULATE THOUGHTS: The child seems to be unable to understand the essence of what is being read or thought, and appears to lose his train of thought.
8. The child with learning disabilities may reverse letters, skip lines, leave out words, repeat himself, mispronounce, give inappropriate response, be unable to conceptualize, interact or relate, and appear distraught when given instruction.