What are signs of a learning disability?
There are many types of learning disabilities and they have a wide range of characteristics. Your child may have mild or severe problems. Your child may also have more than one LD. All learning-disabled children tend to have problems in school even though they have normal or above-normal intelligence. A child with an LD may have problems in one or many of the following areas: Attention: Your child may have trouble paying attention, be impulsive, or get tired easily when trying to concentrate. Language: Your child has trouble following directions and needs to have things repeated. He or she may use the wrong words or mix up words. Telling a story may be hard because the events get mixed up. Temporal-spatial orientation: Your child has trouble understanding time (such as the difference between tomorrow and next week). He or she may have trouble with directions and often get lost. Visual processing: Your child may see letters or words backwards (for example, may confuse b’s and d’s or rea
