Common Learning Disability Warning Signs and Checklists

Does the individual have difficulty with?

ORGANIZATION

• knowing time, date, year
• managing time
• completing assignments
• organizing thoughts
• locating belongings
• carrying out a plan
• making decisions
• setting priorities
• sequencing

PHYSICAL COORDINATION

• Manipulating small objects
• learning self-help skills
• cutting
• drawing
• handwriting
• climbing and running
• mastering sports

SPOKEN OR WRITTEN LANGUAGE

• pronouncing words
• learning new vocabulary
• following directions
• understanding requests
• relating stories
• discriminating among sounds
• responding to questions
• understanding concepts
• reading comprehension
• spelling
• writing stories and essays

ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION

• completing a task
• acting before thinking
• poor organization
• waiting
• restlessness
• daydreaming
• distractibility

MEMORY

• remembering directions
• learning math facts
• learning new procedures
• learning the alphabet
• identifying letters
• remembering names
• remembering events
• spelling
• studying for tests

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

• making and keeping friends
• social judgment
• impulsive behavior
• frustration tolerance
• sportsmanship
• accepting changes in routine
• interpreting nonverbal cues
• working cooperatively