| Learning difficulties spreads along a spectrum to | | | | language disability, is affiliated with a child's ability |
| include many intellectual, emotional, and verbal | | | | to comprehend and follow verbal instructions. |
| disorders. It is not only a term for the more | | | | Children with aphasia may struggle with and |
| common ADD and autism, instead learning | | | | appear to be helpless when trying to speak or |
| difficulties also cover more basic disorders that | | | | pronounce words. Even repeating some phrases |
| directly deal with a child's ability to learn. That is | | | | said to them may be an extremely arduous task |
| not to say that all learning difficulties do not | | | | for a child with an aphasia learning disability. |
| present some difficulty for a child to learn | | | | Although the learning disability does have a proven |
| because it does. However, these learning | | | | effective treatment called melodic intonation |
| difficulties have to do with how your children see | | | | therapy, this treatment is not true for all aphasia |
| reading, writing, mathematics, speech, etc. It | | | | cases. Aphasia can be dealt with on a day to day |
| encompasses subjects directly correlating to a | | | | basis by others using eye contact and speaking |
| developing child's school career, which is why being | | | | slowly with simple words to the child. |
| familiar with these disabilities can be important. | | | | Expressive Language Disability |
| Dyslexia | | | | Expressive language disability is a disorder |
| Dyslexia is a type of learning disability that impairs | | | | affecting communication where an individual has |
| an individual's ability to read. It is a brain-based | | | | difficulty with written and spoken communication. |
| disability that causes a person to read at much | | | | This creates issues with an individual's ability to |
| lower levels than they are expected to. Dyslexia | | | | produce complex sentences, their vocabulary, |
| is a disability that is different from one person | | | | recalling words that they once learned, as well as |
| than it is from the next, but some of the | | | | potentially creating issues with their ability to |
| common characteristics include finding it difficult to | | | | articulate words. This disability not only affects an |
| spell, to process the way things are phonetically | | | | individual's ability to produce speech, but also to |
| pronounced, and correctly processing quick visual | | | | retain memories. An apparent memory problem |
| verbal reactions. As a way to treat dyslexia, | | | | occurs, but is only detrimental toward the verbal |
| teaching is usually modified to adapt to the way | | | | aspect of things, whereas the unspoken based |
| dyslexic pupils read and process words. Dyslexia is | | | | memory remains unaffected. It is a disability that |
| a life-long disability and it is best that the individual | | | | cannot go away on its own and can be treated |
| figure out early on what works for them because | | | | by a specific type of speech therapy. It affects |
| there is no cure. | | | | not only school, but also work later in an |
| Dyscalculia | | | | individual's life. |
| Dyscalculia is a specific type of learning disability | | | | Nonverbal Learning Disability |
| that affects an individual and their ability to | | | | Nonverbal learning disability deals with a child |
| comprehend and learn mathematical skills. In | | | | learning more through sound than sight. The child |
| terms of learning disabilities, it shares a lot of | | | | suffers from poor visualization skills and therefore |
| similarities with dyslexia. However, it is not as | | | | depends on hearing to learn rather than seeing. |
| widely known as dyslexia. Dyscalculia has the | | | | This is one of the lesser common learning |
| ability to affect any individual, no matter the | | | | difficulties because even with the adherence of |
| intelligence level and generally refers to a person's | | | | seeing poorly, the child will still have average to |
| difficulty with understanding time, spatial reasoning, | | | | above average grades. However, the child is |
| and measurement. But these particular problem | | | | always going to sort of lag behind her pupils |
| areas are not always the case. It is estimated | | | | because as he or she grows and becomes familiar |
| that dyscalculia affects about 5% of the | | | | with his or her environment that strong hearing |
| population. | | | | ability they once had begins to kind of cripple |
| Aphasia | | | | them. Social skills and coordination are two of the |
| Aphasia, commonly referred to as receptive | | | | things that suffer because of this. |