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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]], speaking, reading, writing, and maths calculations.<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> 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 name="asha.org">{{cite web | url= http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/LBLD.htm|title=Language-Based Learning Disabilities (Reading, Spelling, and Writing) | publisher=American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref><br />

There are two types of learning disabilities: non-verbal, which includes disabilities from psychomotor difficulties to [[dyscalculia]], and verbal, language based.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.parentinged.com/learning-disabilities/An-Introduction-To-Language-Based-Learning-Disabilities.html | title=An Introduction To Language Based Learning Disabilities | work=www.parentinged.com | accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>American Speech-Language-Hearing Association</ref>

==Symptoms==

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===Dyslexia===

[[Dyslexia]] is a common Learning- Based Learning Disability. Dyslexia can affect reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders.<ref>http{{cite web | url=https://ldaamerica.org/types-of-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/ | title=Dyslexia | publisher=Learning Disabilities Association of America | accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> The greatest difficult those with the disorder have is with spoken and the written word. These issues present pertain but are not limited to:

*Expressing ideas clearly, as if the words needed are on the tip of the tongue but won't come out.

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*Spelling

*Memorizing the [[times tables]]

*Telling time <ref name="asha.org"/>

==Prognosis==