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[quote=Anonymous]You really need to be engage with a learning disabled kid to understand how different they are from non learning disabled kids. I remembered trying to help my DD learn to read in comparison with DS. DS who isn't LD sounded out the words and got progressively better. If he didn't know the meaning of a word he would usually just keep going and either got the idea or didn't worry about it. DD could not sound out words and then remember what word she had previously read. DD jumped all over the page reading different words. DD would read all the words on the page separately and then put them together like a puzzle. If DD didn't know the meaning of a word she would stop and you had to give her a very precise definition. She would then question how that word had anything to do with what she just read.  If there was a picture she would hyper focus on analyzing it. DD would overly focus on aspects that were not in the text. She would not just read See Spot Run. She would then ask why was Spot running? Was someone chasing Spot? Why is there no ground under the picture of Spot running? It looks like Spot is flying but that isn't what the text says. Why is the drawing wrong? It was exhausting.

One of the aspects of ADHD and other LDs is that some areas of the brain develop faster than their peers while other areas develop slower. This can lead to some extreme differences in cognitive skills until they get older and it balances out. Parents who have the time, inclination and education to do a wider range of academic activities with their kids notice these extreme differences quickly. They go fo testing because something is clearly off if DC can do things she should be able to do yet and really struggles in a strange way with things that should be easy for her. [/quote]

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