How do weak language skills from a learning disability affect academic progress?
It is critical for children to understand language concepts involving sequencing, quantity, direction, time and size in order to calculate math problems. Social studies involve directional concepts such as north, south, east, west, up, down, left and right. Writing skills require a child to share details of a story (what, where, when, who, why, how) in the correct sequence, using appropriate descriptive language. These language areas and many others affect all areas of academic and occupational success in children and adults.
