specific Learning Difficulties (sld)
Specific learning disabilities (SLD) are not intellectual impairments. Individuals with a specific learning disability have significant difficulty in one academic area while coping well, or even excelling, in other areas of academic, sporting or extracurricular achievement. The common indicator of an SLD is an unexpected underachievement in an area of academic skill which is not consistent with the student's other capabilities. An SLD is a problem that is severe, persistent and exists despite appropriate educational opportunities and is in contrast to the child’s other abilities and achievements.
Specific learning disabilities may occur in the following areas of academic skill:
Reading
This specific learning disability is “characterised by difficulties with accurate and /or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
Written expression
Also called dysgraphia, this specific learning disability is focused on the production of written language
Mathematics
Also called dyscalculia this specific learning disability presents as a severe difficulty with a number of faculty and mathematical ability.
Specific Language Impairment can occur in the area of expressive language, receptive language or both, and maybe phonological in nature.
Language / Communication Disorders
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