Learning Disabilities Checklist

Many different kinds of learning disabilities exist. Each affects learning in a different way and requires specific actions or strategies to help a child learn in ways best for him or her.

Some things to look for…..

• Child doesn’t understand and enjoy rhymes
• Child has lots of trouble clapping hands or tapping feet in rhythm with songs or rhymes
• Child has lots of difficulty learning or remembering words to songs, poems,and nursery rhymes
• Child has difficulty learning the basic sounds that correspond to letters of the alphabet
• Child has trouble speaking common words, or saying aloud songs, poems, and rhymes
• Child doesn’t understand stories suitable for his or her age
• Child can’t talk about content of stories suitable for his or her age
• Child doesn’t understand simple questions
• Child doesn’t take part in pretend play
• Child doesn’t understand simple spatial terms or relationships, such as front, back, up and down

 

 

Tip
It is always a good idea to get your child’s hearing and eyesight tested regularly (every year). Vision can be tested as early as the first year of life. Hearing is tested at birth in the hospital.