Information/organizational processing challenges affect how people manage information. Individuals with information/organizational processing challenges:

• Lack problem solving strategies
• Tend to give wrong or partial answers because the time is not taken to consider all the information - a systematic approach to analyzing the information may not be used
• Have difficulty understanding cause and effect or problems with sequencing
• Have difficulty considering more than one source of information at a time
• Have difficulty comparing information that they already know with new information that is presented
• Lack the ability to realize when and why it is important to be precise and accurate in problem solving or presenting information
• Are challenged when following directions
• Find it difficult to finish tasks because they may not understand what is expected
• Lack ability to plan and organize materials
• Have difficulty remembering - this can be attributed to both short- and long-term memory difficulties
• May know the information but have difficulty saying or finding the right words.⁵

Affective Factors:

Emotions that learners experience can have a negative or positive impact on their ability to learn. Unfortunately many of the learners who enter LBS programs express negative emotions such as low self-esteem or feelings of inferiority often resulting from previous learning experiences. These emotions can limit a person's willingness to attempt learning activities and result in an inability to articulate and build upon any strengths he or she may have. Time and time again practitioners have shared their experience of how a person's increase in self-esteem has had a major impact on learners' ability to learn new skills and willingness to risk attempting new tasks. This highlights how important it is for learners to understand their challenge areas and explore different ways to learn.