Category: Specific Learning Disability

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. It involves impairment in the ability to process sounds, that is, to make connections between written letters and their sounds; written work is often characterized by reversal errors. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede the growth of vocabulary and background knowledge. It is independent of intellectual ability, and is unrelated to disorders of speech and vision that may also be present. It is not the result of lack of motivation, sensory impairment, inadequate instructional or environmental opportunities, emotional disturbances, or other such factors.

Worried that your child might have Dyslexia:

1. Does your child overlook similarities and differences between letters or words?
2. Does your child have great difficulty in spelling correctly and/or consistently confuses b/d: p/b/d: i/j: n/u?
3. Is your child a slow reader or makes unexpected errors when reading aloud?
4. Does your child have difficulty hearing sounds in words, (e.g. th/f: b/p/d etc)?
5. Does your child have difficulty in distinguishing between right and left?
6. Does your child show signs of mirror writing, or does he/she constantly alter the order of letters and numbers?
7. Does your child have difficulty copying from a book or the board?

Treatments, we provide that can help your child and you:

Psychoeducation

Psychometric Assessment

Remedial Education

Attention Training

Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability characterised by difficulty in acquiring arithmetical skills. Dyscalculic learners may have difficulty understanding simple number concepts, lack an intuitive grasp of numbers, and have problems learning number facts and procedures. It includes all types of mathematical problems ranging from an inability to understand the meaning of numbers, to an inability to apply mathematical principles to solve problems. In general, people with dyscalculia have poor ‘number sense’. In a similar way that a lack of phonemic awareness causes people with dyslexia to struggle with reading, a lack of number sense causes people with dyscalculia to struggle with maths concepts. It is independent of intellectual ability. Research shows that most dyscalculia learners have cognitive and language abilities in the normal range, and may excel in non-mathematical subjects.

Worried that your child might have Dyscalculia:

1. Does your child have difficulty with abstract concepts of time and direction?
2. Does your child exhibit poor mental math ability?
3. When writing, reading, and recalling numbers, does your child make common mistakes like number additions, substitutions, transpositions, omissions, and/or reversals?
4. Is your child unable to grasp and remember math concepts, rules, formulas, and sequence?
5. Does your child have difficulty keeping scores during games, or remembering how to keep score in games and/or often loses track of whose turn it is during games?

Treatments, we provide that can help your child and you:

Psychoeducation

Psychometric Assessment

Remedial Education

Attention Training

Dysgraphia is a specific learning disability that affects written expression. Dysgraphia can appear as difficulties with spelling, poor handwriting and trouble putting thoughts on paper. Many children have poor handwriting, but dysgraphia is more serious. There are several different kinds of dysgraphia. Some have handwriting that is often illegible and shows irregular and inconsistent letter formations. Others write legibly, but very slowly and/or very small. When these individuals revert to printing, as they often do, their writing is often a random mixture of upper- and lowercase letters. In all cases of dysgraphia, writing requires inordinate amounts of energy, stamina, and time. Dysgraphia can interfere with a student’s ability to express ideas, resulting in low classroom productivity, incomplete homework assignments, and difficulty in focusing attention.

Worried that your child might have Dysgraphia:

1. Does your child have illegible handwriting (despite appropriate time and attention given the task)?
2. Is your child inconsistent in writing, showing mixtures of print and cursive, upper and lower case, irregular sizes, shapes, or slant?
3. Does your child write unfinished words or letters, omit words?
4. Is your child very slow in copying and writing?
5. Does your child have difficulty in organising his thoughts on paper?
6. Does your child exhibit strange wrist, body or paper position while writing?

Treatments, we provide that can help your child and you:

Psychoeducation

Psychometric Assessment

Remedial Education

Attention Training