Are there learning difficulties for bilingual children?
If your child has an underlying learning disability, being bilingual complicates things, but does not necessarily cause the problem. I am from a very diverse area, Los Angeles, and we had many, many bilingual children. When we had kids that are developing slowly in academics it is at times very difficult to tell what the problem is. The first thing we had to do was determine language dominance and test kids in their dominant language, otherwise, you may not get a true result from your ability testing. If I were you, I would ask the school to do an ADHD rating scale. If the results indicate the possibility of ADHD, you can take it to your doctor and discuss it with him or her. The other reason that children don’t attend is due to an underlying language disorder or learning disability. Children with receptive language deficits and/or auditory memory or processing deficits will not attend to verbal lectures. They also tend to have a great deal of trouble with transitions between activitie
