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Academic Achievement Problems for SLD Students - Coggle Diagram
Academic Achievement Problems for SLD Students
Problem areas
Math, reading, writing, and spoken
Written Language
Dysgraphia
slow writers and work is often illegible
Spelling difficulties with sound and letter correspondence
Difficulties with composition include; using less complex sentence structures, lack of organization, fewer types of words, and have less ideas etc.
Spoken Language
This area has difficulties with the mechanical and social uses of language.
Mechanical difficulties: syntax, semantics, and phonology.
Pragmatics (social part of language): Difficulties with the give-and-take that conversation requires along with the production and reception of conversation
Reading
Most difficult for students with learning disabilities
Even though reading seems to be the most difficult there are success stories of children going up in reading levels.
Dyslexia
Phonological and Phonemic awareness
Decoding
Fluency
Prosody
Reading Comprehension which is also "The Ultimate Goal"
Math
Dyscalculia
This is more time than not due to processing deficits in ones working memory and retrieval of information from our long-term memory
Authorities say that math may be just as prevalent as reading disabilities.
Difficulty with math computation
Difficulty with math reasoning
Other problem areas
Perceptual and motor
Memory
Executive Function
Metacognition
Social-Emotional
Motivational
Attention & Hyperactivity
Severe problems issues could result in a diagnosis of ADHD
~Half of ADHD students have an LD