What are some Early Warning Signs of a Learning Disability?
• Late talking, compared to other children. • Pronunciation problems. • Slow vocabulary growth, often unable to find the right word. • Difficulty understanding questions • Hard time expressing wants and desires • Difficulty rhyming words. • Trouble learning numbers, the alphabet, and days of the week. • Difficulty discriminating size, shape, color • Poor ability to follow or memorize directions or routines • Easily confused by instructions • Lack of interest in story telling • Difficulty sitting still • Extremely restless and easily distracted. • Trouble interacting with peers. • Lack of persistence at tasks • Fine motor skills slow to develop • Trouble learning self-help skills (tying shoelaces) • Clumsiness • Avoidance of drawing or tracing • Trouble learning left from rightGRADES K-4 • Slow to learn the connection between letters and sounds • Difficulty breaking words apart into sounds • Difficulty blending sounds together to make words • Confuses basic words (run eat, want, was) •
• Late talking, compared to other children. • Pronunciation problems. • Slow vocabulary growth, often unable to find the right word. • Difficulty understanding questions • Hard time expressing wants and desires • Difficulty rhyming words. • Trouble learning numbers, the alphabet, and days of the week. • Difficulty discriminating size, shape, color • Poor ability to follow or memorize directions or routines • Easily confused by instructions • Lack of interest in story telling • Difficulty sitting still • Extremely restless and easily distracted. • Trouble interacting with peers. • Lack of persistence at tasks • Fine motor skills slow to develop • Trouble learning self-help skills (tying shoelaces) • Clumsiness • Avoidance of drawing or tracing • Trouble learning left from right GRADES K-4 • Slow to learn the connection between letters and sounds • Difficulty breaking words apart into sounds • Difficulty blending sounds together to make words • Confuses basic words (run eat, want, was) •
