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LEARNING DISABILITIES By: Nancy gonzalez The topic I select for my independent study is ‘Learning disabilities’. The reason why I decide on this topic is that I want to further educate myself on this issue. A learning disability is not noticeable like paralysis or blindness, (LD) is a hidden handicap. A learning disability doesn’t leave any signs behind like a disfiguration, so people do not understand or offer their support. The different types of learning disabilities can be divided in to three large categories, Development speech and language disorders, academic skills disorders and attention disorders. Developmental speech and language disorders are of speech and language problems, most often the earliest signs are of a learning disability. Those with this handicap have a tough time producing speech sounds, using speech language to communicate and understand what others are trying to get across (“People with developmental speech and language disorders have difficulty producing speech sounds, using spoken language to communicate, or understanding what other people say”) Depending on the difficulty a person might be having, their diagnosis may be one of the following developmental articulation disorder, developmental expressive language disorder and developmental receptive language disorder. When children have developmental articulation disorder they may have trouble controlling the pace in which they speck. Also they tend to stay behind their classmates in learning to make speech(Wallace at age 6 still said “wabbit instead of “rabbit” and “thwim” for “swim”) This disorder is found in at lest 10 percent of children under the age of 8. But good news articulation disorder can be out grown or it can be departed with speech therapy.
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