Learning disabilities are a group of learning disorders characterized by inadequate development of specific academic, language and speech skills. Learning disorders are ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), dyslexia, dyscalculia, and communication disorders.
ADHD is a behavior disorder characterized by excessive inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. Inattention behaviors are they are easily distracted from tasks and activities, don’t pay attention to instructions and details, don’t complete classwork or homework, don’t organize tasks or activities, and they lose homework assignments, pencils and books. Impulsiveness behaviors are they act first, think second, go from one thing to another without completing assignments or …show more content…
Each disorder interferes with academic or occupational functioning or ability to communicate socially. Expressive language disorder is an impairment in the use of spoken language such as slow vocabulary development, errors in tense, difficulty recalling words and problems producing sentences of appropriate length and complexity for the individual’s age. Children who are affected may have a phonological disorder, compounding their speech problems. Mixed receptive/expressive language disorder is characterized by difficulties both understanding and producing speech. There may be difficulty understanding words or sentences and certain word types, spatial terms, or sentence types. Phonological disorder is a persistent difficulty articulating the sounds of speech, in the absence of defects in the oral speech mechanism or neurological impairment. Children with the disorder may omit, substitute or mispronounce certain sounds. Those with more severe cases have problems articulating sounds usually mastered during the preschool years. Speech therapy is often helpful and mild cases often resolve themselves by eight years old. Stuttering is a disturbance in the ability to speak fluently with appropriate timing of speech sounds. To justify the diagnosis the lack of fluency must be inappropriate for the persons’ age. It usually begins between ages two and seven, affects about one in one hundred children and occurs in three times as many males as females. Most children overcome the problem without any treatment, usually before age sixteen. Most researchers believe that genetic and environmental influences interact in producing stuttering and brain scans reveal abnormal patterns of neural activity in the basal ganglia of the
ADHD is a behavior disorder characterized by excessive inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. Inattention behaviors are they are easily distracted from tasks and activities, don’t pay attention to instructions and details, don’t complete classwork or homework, don’t organize tasks or activities, and they lose homework assignments, pencils and books. Impulsiveness behaviors are they act first, think second, go from one thing to another without completing assignments or …show more content…
Each disorder interferes with academic or occupational functioning or ability to communicate socially. Expressive language disorder is an impairment in the use of spoken language such as slow vocabulary development, errors in tense, difficulty recalling words and problems producing sentences of appropriate length and complexity for the individual’s age. Children who are affected may have a phonological disorder, compounding their speech problems. Mixed receptive/expressive language disorder is characterized by difficulties both understanding and producing speech. There may be difficulty understanding words or sentences and certain word types, spatial terms, or sentence types. Phonological disorder is a persistent difficulty articulating the sounds of speech, in the absence of defects in the oral speech mechanism or neurological impairment. Children with the disorder may omit, substitute or mispronounce certain sounds. Those with more severe cases have problems articulating sounds usually mastered during the preschool years. Speech therapy is often helpful and mild cases often resolve themselves by eight years old. Stuttering is a disturbance in the ability to speak fluently with appropriate timing of speech sounds. To justify the diagnosis the lack of fluency must be inappropriate for the persons’ age. It usually begins between ages two and seven, affects about one in one hundred children and occurs in three times as many males as females. Most children overcome the problem without any treatment, usually before age sixteen. Most researchers believe that genetic and environmental influences interact in producing stuttering and brain scans reveal abnormal patterns of neural activity in the basal ganglia of the