There is no typical person with learning disabilities as it covers a wide range of characteristics. Some students may have deficits in one area while others have deficits in multiple areas. Learning disabilities can cause cognitive difficulties, motor skill issues, social problems, and other attributes like hyperactivity, perceptual issues, emotional issues, attention disorders, impulsivity, memory problems, academic struggles, and language deficits. Boys are more likely to be identified as learning disabled than girls and may exhibit more physical aggression and loss of control while girls tend to have more cognitive, language, social, and math/reading problems. Specific learning disabilities can impact reading comprehension, word recognition, language analysis, oral reading, math computation, problem solving, and other academic areas.

1. Group 2

2.  “probably no such entity as a typical person
with learning disabilities.”
 Learning disabilities covers an extremely wide
range of characteristics.
 1 pupil; may have deficits in just 1area while
another exhibits deficits in several area, yet
both will be labeled learning
disabled(Hallahan et al., 1999)

3.  Some children will experience:
o Cognitive difficulties
o Motor skills difficulty
o Social deficits

4.  10 frequently attributes:
 Hyperactivity
 Perceptual-Motor impairments
 Emotional lability
 Coordination problems
 Disorders of attention

5.  Impulsivity
 Disorders of memory & Thinking
 Academic Difficulties
 Language deficits
 Equivocal neurological signs

6. Learning And behavioral
Characteristics:
 Disorders of attention
 Poor motor abilities
 Psychological process deficits and information-
processing problems
 Lack of cognitive strategies needed for efficient
learning

7. Learning Disability
Social and
emotional
Problem
Cognitive
deficits
Academic
difficulties

8.  Oral language difficulties
 Reading difficulties
 Written language problems
 Quantitative disorders
 Social skills deficits

9.  Hyperactive vs. Hypoactive

10.  Boys are 4 times as likely as girls to be
identified as learning disabled.
 Boys
 physical aggression
 Loss of control
 Girls
 More cognitive problems
 Language problems
 Social problems
 deficits in reading and Math

11.  Reading comprehension
 Word recognition errors
 Lack word analysis
 Deficient in oral reading

12.  Student fails to recognize and comprehend
written words

13.  Pupil may have difficulty with:
• Computational skill
• Word problems
• Spatial relationships or writing numbers
• Copying shapes
• Problems in telling time
• Understanding fraction and decimals
• measuring