The ABCs of Learning Challenges (Part 1)

• Most children with learning differences are affected by multiple challenges.
• Learning challenges often surface when there is a mismatch between the child’s abilities and the demands of the environment. For example, an academic curriculum may be accelerated beyond the developmental level of the child (or many of the children) in a particular classroom.
• People with verbal learning disabilities have difficulty with words, both spoken and written
• People with non-verbal learning disabilities may have difficulty processing abstract concepts, abstract reasoning and conceptualizing concepts.
• A visual processing or perceptual disorder refers to a hindered ability to make sense of information taken in through the eyes.
• An auditory processing disorder interferes with a person’s ability to make sense of information taken in through the ears.

(To be continued)