Language-based learning disability: Difference between revisions

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'''Language-based learning disabilities''' or LBLD are “"[[Heterogenous|heterogeneous]]”" disorders associated with young children that affect their academic skills such as listening, [[reasoning]]<ref name="Vinson2006">{{cite book|author= Vinson, Betsy Partin.|title= Language Disorders Across the Lifespan|publisher=Cengage Demar|___location=Belmont|year=2006|isbn= 1-4180-0954-7}}</ref> speaking, reading, writing, and maths calculations. It is also associated with movement, coordination, and direct attention. LBLD is not usually identified until the child reaches school age. Most of the children with this disorder find it hard to communicate, to express ideas efficiently and whatever they say can be ambiguous and hard to understand<ref>M.B. Aria .Learn How To Be A Better Parent And Raise Healthy Happy Children</ref>

It is caused by brain damage<ref name="Vinson2006" /> or a structural development of brain usually at birth. It is often hereditary, and is frequently associated to specific language problems.<ref>http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/LBLD.htm</ref><br />

There are two types of learning disabilities: non-verbal, which includes disabilities from psychomotor difficulties to [[dyscalculia]], and verbal, language based.<ref>http://www.parentinged.com/learning-disabilities/An-Introduction-To-Language-Based-Learning-Disabilities.html</ref><ref>American Speech-Language-Hearing Association</ref>

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LBLD consists of [[dyscalculia]] which comprises the reading of numbers sequentially, learning the time table, and telling time.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lerner, Janet W.|title=Learning disabilities: theories, diagnosis, and teaching strategies|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|___location=Boston|year=2000|isbn=0-395-96114-9}}</ref>

[[Dyslexia]], difficulties associated with written language such as trouble learning new vocabulary, letters and [[alphabets]]. [[Auditory processing disorder]]s can cause trouble understanding questions and following directions, understanding and remembering the details of a story's plot or a classroom lecture, learning words to songs and rhymes, telling left from right, and having a hard time with reading and writing .<ref>{{cite book|author= Neuman, Susan B., and David K. Dickinson.|title= Handbook of Early Literacy Research|publisher= Guilford Publications|___location=Minneapolis|year=2006|isbn= 1 -5938-5184-7}}</ref>

Difficulties associated with reading and spoken language involve trouble understanding questions and following directions, understanding and retaining the details of a story's plot or a classroom lecture, [[nonword repetition]], learning words to songs and rhymes, and identifying the sounds that correspond to letters, which makes learning to read difficult<ref>{{cite journal| doi = 10.1111/1469-7610.00674| author = G.M. McArthur, J.H. Hogben, V.T. Edwards, et al.| year = 2000| title = On the “specifics”"specifics" of specific reading disability and specific language impairment.| journal = Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry| volume = 41| pages = 869–874| pmid = 11079429| issue = 7}}</ref>

Difficulties associated with [[motor skill]]s include difficulty telling left from right which is part of [[developmental coordination disorder|motor incoordination]], visual perceptual problems, and memory problem<ref>{{cite book|author= Paul, Rhea, Pamela Bruni, and Ayub Balweel.|title= Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence: Assessment and Intervention|publisher= Mosby|___location=St. Louis|year=2006|isbn= 0-323-03685-6}}</ref>

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