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.