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Language Based Learning Disabilities

By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., Licensed School Psychologist

Your child’s smart but has unexpected struggles. Perhaps and written language. A language-based learning disability slow choppy reading, poor
it worries you so much that you awake during the night is often the root cause of a child’s academic struggles reading comprehension,
thinking about your child’s difficulties. There is a subset since weak language skills impede comprehension, oral difficulty following multi-
of children who have language-based learning disabilities and written communication. It can also interfere with your step verbal directions,
which interfere with learning. Language infiltrates all child’s attention, memory, social skills, perseverance, and difficulty putting thoughts
areas of life from our thinking to our talking. When a child self-regulation. A child can have a general language-based into writing, forgetting small
has difficulty processing language, they often struggle in learning disability or a specific type such as dyslexia or sight words, knowing what
reading, spelling, writing, and with math word problems dysgraphia. to say but difficulty getting
since these areas require language. Warning signs of a language-based learning disability in it out, difficulty getting to
A language-based learning disability refers to a spectrum young children include: a history of a speech and language the point when speaking,
of difficulties related to the understanding and use of spoken impairment (remediated or ongoing), poor phonics, and poor test performance
despite having studied.
Some students with language-based learning disabilities
club news are diagnosed young while other children perform well in
early elementary school and are diagnosed later when the
demands of language in middle or high school increase.
In addition, adolescents with a language-based learning
disability have difficulty managing the heavy reading load
Christian Women’s Connection Of from multiple classes.
Most individuals with a language-based learning
The Northern Palm Beaches disability need instruction that is specialized, explicit,
structured, and multisensory, as well as ongoing, guided
practice aimed at helping their specific areas of weakness.
Announces 2022/23 Season—Save The Dates! School is often a struggle for kids with a language-based
learning disability but once you get them through school,
these smart kids inherit a world of opportunities.
The Christian Women’s Connection luncheons begin is welcome. Dec. 9, there will be Christmas music, a If you need help with your child call as we test children
Dec. 9, at 11:30 a.m., at The Twisted Tuna, 353 S. U.S. Stonecroft inspirational speaker, Chicken Marsala, and ages 5.5 through college for language based learning
Highway 1, Jupiter, FL 33477 (located one block south new friends. disabilities, dyslexia, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and other
of Indiantown Road on the east side of U.S. Highway 1). The season’s dates are Dec. 9, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, processing disorders. Visit JimForgan.com or call (561)
We will meet in the lovely upper room and you can use and March 10. The cost is $38 (including gratuity and 625-4125.
the elevator or the stairs. program). Get reservations at cwcnpb@gmail.com or at
We are affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries, an (561) 744-8703.
interdenominational, international ministry. Everyone

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