Learning Disabilities Characterisitics

According to the federal definition, learning disabilities include learning problems that arise primarily as a result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of an intellectual disability, of emotional disturbance of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage  

• True

• False

Students with a learning disability must have difficulties in all of the characteristics(Cognitive, Academic, Social and Emotional, Behavior) 

• True

• False

Perception pertains to.......

• Whether a student sees or hears something

• How a students brain interprets what is seen or heard and acts on it

• Depth perception

Which is NOT a characteristic domain of a learning disability

• Cognitive

• Social & Emotional

• Motor skills

• Academic

What act included the now federal definition of a learning disability?

Not all students with learning disabilities struggle with social competence.

• False

• True

There are _____ categories of academic characteristics of learning disabilities

• Three

• Five

• Six

• Four

If a person has dyslexia they have reading problems of all sorts

• False

• True

What is NVLDS often mistaken for?

• ADHD

• Autism

• Dyscalculia

• Anxiety