Challenges to watch for:
- Difficulty focusing on a page
- Skipping lines when reading
- Using finger to follow along when reading
- Difficulty telling time and/or a lack of sense of time (knowing how
long it will take to complete a task or arrive at a destination)
- Holding material close
- Poor letter formation, letter spacing and word spacing problems
with sense of direction, estimation of size, shape, and distance
- Problems reading facial expressions, gestures, social cues, and tones
of voice, which can lea d to difficulties with social interactions54
Case Studies to illustrate assessment application
The following three case studies are fictional, but have been developed from
an extensive review of learning disabilities research and collections of case
studies gathered from Canadian, American and international sources.
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