What are the symptoms of learning disabilities?
Learning disabilities are usually ongoing for a person’s lifetime. However, depending on the severity and the type of disability, many people are able to compensate for minor disabilities in adulthood and are able to function very well in society. For others, the learning disabilities remain apparent. The most common symptoms tend to be related to cognition or language skills and tend to cause problems with listening skills, language skills (including speaking, reading or writing), and mathematical operations.
Common symptoms of learning disabilities
Your child will most likely experience learning disabilities symptoms on a daily, ongoing basis. At times any of these symptoms can be severe:
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Dyscalculia (problems with mathematical operations)
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Dysgraphia (problems with handwriting)
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Information-processing disorders (inability to fully use sensory information)
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Language-related problems, or difficulty with age-appropriate verbal and written communications
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Reading disability or dyslexia
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Significant delay in achieving a developmental milestone, while other areas are normal or above average
Symptoms that might indicate a serious condition
In some cases, learning disabilities can be a serious condition that should be immediately evaluated in an emergency setting. Seek immediate medical care if your child, or someone you are with, has any of these serious symptoms including:
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Aggressive behaviors that lead you to believe the child is a danger to self or others
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Signs that lead you to suspect the child is a victim of neglect or child abuse
INTRODUCTION
What are learning disabilities?
Learning disabilities are disorders that affect a person’s ability to understand or respond to new information, or they are disorders that affect the ability to remember information that appears to have been taken in. Learning disabilities tend to cause problems with listening skills, language skills (including speaking, reading or writing), and mathematical operations. Learning disa...
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CAUSES
What causes learning disabilities?
Learning disabilities are a brain operational aberration. This means that the brain assimilates and processes certain kinds of new information and performs operations in unique, unusual ways that often make it difficult to achieve normal learning milestones....
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TREATMENTS
How are learning disabilities treated?
Learning disabilities are not curable; however, many can be reduced or controlled with early screening and intervention. In addition, disabilities caused by correctable factors, such as poor hearing or vision, may go away entirely over time once the causative condition is corrected. Once diagnosed with a learning disability, your child’s most beneficial treatment will be special education services, including a team approach to planning your child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP), in addition to other therapies, if these are found helpful. These might include speech therapy or occupational therapy. One-on-one tutoring with a specialist who understands learning disabilities can also make...
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