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ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING DISABILITY
Definition of Specific Learning Disability - IDEA (2004)
"The term 'specific learning disability' means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
Such term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
Such term does not include a learning problem that is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage."
Learning Disability
Areas of Difficulty:
Secondary Problems
Specific Learning Disability: Learning Disabilities is an “umbrella” term describing a number of other, more specific learning disabilities: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia , Dyscalculia, Non Verbal Learning Disorder.
Definition of Specific Learning Disability - IDEA (2004)
"The term 'specific learning disability' means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
Such term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
Such term does not include a learning problem that is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage."
Learning Disability
- A heterogeneous group of disorders
- Affects the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning and mathematical abilities
- May affect social skills also
- Disorders are intrinsic to the individual
- LD may occur concomitantly with other conditions
- Children with LD have normal intelligence
- Found in both – boys and girls
- Found in children as well as adults
- Can be diagnosed at any age
- Affects academic as well as non-academic skills
- Approximately 7% - 10% of school-going children have some learning disability
- LD cannot be cured
- Economic disadvantage
- Environmental factors
- Cultural or differences
- Poor parenting
Areas of Difficulty:
- Attention
- Reasoning and Thinking
- Memory
- Oral Communication
- Reading
- Writing
- Spelling
- Mathematics
- Motor Skills
- Social Skills
Secondary Problems
- Low motivation
- Poor Self-Esteem
- Behavioral Concerns
- Physical Effects
- Self-Critical & Critical of Others
Specific Learning Disability: Learning Disabilities is an “umbrella” term describing a number of other, more specific learning disabilities: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia , Dyscalculia, Non Verbal Learning Disorder.
