PSYCH317 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Speech Sound Disorder, Phonological Awareness, Communication Disorder
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Children with communicaion disorders can learn and are as intelligent as anyone else. Their disorders usually afect only limited aspects of learning, and rarely severe enough to impair the pursuit of a normal life. Learning disability sill commonly used as a general tern for learning problems that occur in the absence of other obvious condiions, such as intellectual disability or brain damage. Ld afects how individuals with normal or above average intelligence take in, retain or express informaion. Ld oten hidden and undetected in young children. These children face problems in convincing others that their problems are legiimate as visible disabiliies. Oten show up in schoolwork and can impede a child"s ability to learn to read, write or do math, but they can also afect many other parts of life, including work, daily rouines, family life, and friendships. Main characterisic all children with learning disabiliies share if failing to perform at their expected level in school.