Monday, 18 April 2011

Effective Guidelines to Find out Learning Disability in Your Child


If your child is suffering from difficulty in reading or writing, this article would be of great help for you as it includes various signs and symptoms of learning disability.
National Center on learning disabilities has launched a list in order to help you out in determine whether your child is suffering learning disability and needs learning disabilities education or not. The checklist presented is divided in to eight different categories: Gross and well motor skills, language, reading, writing, social and emotional factors all these are the categorization of learning disabilities in this check list.
 Below stated is some essential information being dictated in the checklist:
·         Children having difficulty with opening buttons, hooks, snaps, zippers and problem in learning to tie their shoes
·         When your child shows poor capability to colour or have difficulty in writing within lines
·         Holding pencil  uncomfortably while writing
·         Showing setback in learning to speak
·         Pronounces words frequently
·         When your child got confused in similar looking letters and numbers
·         Children has problem in identifying and recalling sight words
·         Children has difficulty in naming letters
·         When your child avoids writing and copying
·         When your child uses irregular spacing between letters and symbols
·         Children having poor capability of spelling words
                                                                                                                                              
If you find above stated symptoms in your child then you must consult some specialist as your child is at high risk of learning disabilities. National Centre for learning disabilities is very helpful in providing important information to parents, professionals and individuals about learning disabilities so that you may find out whether you child needs learning disabilities education or not.
Learning disabilities education is really essential as your child will learn about promotional research programs so as to promote effective training and advocates for policies to secure and boost the educational rights and opportunities. 
Some of the symptoms observed in learning disabilities are:
·         Confusion in left and right directions
·         Problem in learning things
·         Auditory processing delays
·         Reversals of letters or numbers
·         Problem in telling time with hand clock
·         Difficulty with mathematical problems
·         Untidy bedroom, bags packed etc.
·         Written expression is poor
·         Poor vocabulary
 Such setbacks may include, problem in communication, difficulty in understanding written material or may have difficulty in social interaction. When these symptoms are encountered in our child does take him to some medical specialist so that he can lead normal life with appropriate treatment.