Noah's
Children
Noah's Children: Learning Disabilities- Common
Warning Signs
If you are aware of the common signs of learning disabilities, you
will be able to recognize potential problems early. The following
is a checklist of characteristics that may point to a learning disability.
Most people will, from time to time, see one or more of these warning
signs in their children. This is normal. If, however, you see several
of these characteristics over a long period of time, consider the
possibility of a learning disability. 
Preschool
- Speaks later than most children
- Pronunciation problems
- Slow vocabulary growth, often unable to find the right word
- Difficulty rhyming words
- Trouble learning numbers, alphabet, days of the week, colors,
shapes
- Extremely restless and easily distracted
- Trouble interacting with peers
- Difficulty following directions or routines
- Fine motor skills slow to develop
Grades K-4
- Slow to learn the connection between letters and sounds
- Confuses basic words (run, eat, want)
- Makes consistent reading and spelling errors including letter
reversals (b/d), inversions (m/w), transpositions (felt/left),
and substitutions (house/home)
- Transposes number sequences and confuses arithmetic signs (+,
-, x, /, =)
- Slow to remember facts
- Slow to learn new skills, relies heavily on memorization
- Impulsive, difficulty planning
- Unstable pencil grip
- Trouble learning about time
- Poor coordination, unaware of physical surroundings, prone
to accidents
Grades 5-8
- Reverses letter sequences (soiled/solid, left/felt)
- Slow to learn prefixes, suffixes, root words, and other spelling
strategies
- Avoids reading aloud
- Trouble with word problems
- Difficulty with handwriting
- Awkward, fist-like, or tight pencil grip
- Avoids writing compositions
- Slow or poor recall of facts
- Difficulty making friends
- Trouble understanding body language and facial expressions
High School Students and Adults
- Continues to spell incorrectly, frequently spells the same
word differently in a single piece of writing · Avoids
reading and writing tasks
- Trouble summarizing
- Trouble with open-ended questions on tests
- Weak memory skills
- Difficulty adjusting to new settings
- Works slowly
- Poor grasp of abstract concepts
- Either pays too little attention to details or focuses on them
too much
- Misreads information
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