A learning disability is a neurological condition that influences the mind’s capacity to process, store, or recover data. This can affect abilities like perusing, composing, math, and communication. Individuals with learning disabilities might battle in school in spite of having normal or better than expected knowledge.
Learning disabilities under the diagnosis of “Specific Learning Disorder,” differentiating between conditions marked by impairment in reading, mathematics, or written expression. This diagnosis occurs more often in males than in females. A child with a learning disability often has several related signs, and they don’t go away or get better over time. The signs of learning disabilities vary from person to person.
The Learning Disabilities Association of America lists these specific learning difficulties:
Dyslexia:
- A condition that can affect reading fluency and comprehension, writing, spelling, speech, and recall. Dyslexia might occur along with other related conditions and is also known as a language-based learning disability.
Dysgraphia:
- An individual with dysgraphia might find it difficult to write legibly, space words consistently, spell, compose, think and write at the same time, or plan spatially (on paper). Specifically, this disability affects handwriting and other fine motor skills.
Dyscalculia:
- This learning disability may have an effect on one’s ability to develop math skills, understand numbers, and learn math-based facts. It can be difficult for individuals with dyscalculia to comprehend math symbols, organize or memorize numbers, tell time, and count.
Auditory processing disorder (central auditory processing disorder):
- Individuals with this condition may have difficulty recognizing the differences between sounds, understanding the order of sounds, recognizing where sounds have come from, or separating sounds from background noise.
- Language processing disorder: This condition, a type of APD, makes it difficult for individuals to give meaning to sound groups in order to form words and sentences. It relates to the processing of both expressive and receptive language.
- Nonverbal learning difficulties: This learning disability typically make it difficult for individuals to interpret facial expressions and body language. Visual-spatial, motor, and social skills may all be affected.
- Visual perceptual/visual motor deficit: Those with dysgraphia or a nonverbal learning difficulty might also have a visual perceptual/visual motor deficit, which can impact the way a person understands visual information, the ability to draw and copy, hand/eye coordination, and the ability to follow along in text or on paper.
Attention deficit hyperactivity is not considered a learning difficulty, but research shows between 30% and 50% of children have both ADHD and a specific learning difficulty. When these two conditions occur together, learning can become even more challenging.
Behavioral symptoms:
Learning issues frequently influence your youngster’s confidence and the way that they feel about school. They may likewise feel disappointed that their exhibition doesn’t match their companions’. The accompanying ways of behaving might be indications of a learning problem.
Not having any desire to go to class.
Not having any desire to recite without holding back or do numerical issues before peers.
Grumbling about their teacher(s) or faulting educators for their grades.
Not having any desire to show homework to their parental figures.
Staying away from tasks.
“Carrying on” in school or social circumstances.
Having emotional episodes, hissy fits or explosions of disobedience.
Saying self-basic articulations, similar to “I’m idiotic.”
Assuming your kid is having these troubles, it’s critical to converse with them and find them help
Therapy and support for learning disabilities:
Parents may worry that a learning disability will prevent their child from succeeding in school, but this is not necessarily the case. Teachers, mental health professionals, and specialized professionals are frequently able to work with students who have a learning difficulty or other academic concerns. These professionals can help to identify particular areas of difficulty and develop specialized learning plans and strategies, such as an IEP (individualized education program), in order to adjust learning and education strategies to best fit that student’s strengths and accommodate for areas of weakness. When a child’s needs cannot be adequately addressed in the original classroom, a child may be placed in a different classroom—for all or part of the school day—to receive specialized instruction, often on an individual level.
Children and teens may experience anger, frustration, anxiety, or stress as a result of the difficulty. They may become frustrated when they study extensively but receive low test scores; experience anger and stress when it is difficult to understand an assignment, or become anxious at the beginning of each new school year.
