Learning disabilities

Question 1

Which impaired skills are part of the diagnostic criteria for specific learning disorders?

Answer 1

1. word reading.
2. understanding what is read.
3. spelling.
4. written expression.
5. understanding numbers.
6. understanding mathematical reasoning.

Question 2

What are the symptoms/secondary consequences of dyslexia?

Answer 2

1. visual processing.
2. inefficient working memory.
3. difficult automating skills.
4. phonological processing.
5. reading comprehension.
6. phonological awareness.
7. difficulties spelling.
8. difficulties learning letters and sounds.

Question 3

What are further signs of dyslexia?

Answer 3

• child’s reading is significantly behind for chronological age.
• IQ not below average.
• no social, educational or emotional causes for reading difficulties.
• no defects in hearing or vision, etc.
• exhibition of positive signs of the disorder.

Question 4

What are the typical symptoms of dyscalculia?

Answer 4

1. forgetting mathematical procedures.
2. difficulty counting backwards.
3. poor sense of numbers and estimation.
4. no strategies to compensate for lack of recall, other than counting.
5. weak mental arithmetic skills.
6. mathematical anxiety.
7. avoidance of mathematical tasks.