Learning Disabilities Associated with ADHD

It is very common to have a learning disability alongarithmetic reasoning, oral expression, written
with ADHD.expression, foreign
In fact, research shows that thirty percent oflanguage acquisition, syntactic processing and most
people with ADHD alsolikely other
have a learning disability. Beyond learning disabilities,learning disabilities. This is why getting a thorough
overexamination
fifty percent of individuals with ADHD have someat the start is so important. An individual may be
other type ofdealing with ADHD,
brain-based disorder. This is why depression, anxiety,but he or she may be dealing with a learning disability
OCD,as well. And
bipolar disorder and other similar disorders are higherthough you cannot directly do anything about a
than normal inlearning disability, it
ADD clients.One type of learning disability thatis good to know you have one and how it affects
almost every person with ADD willyour ability to
have is an integrative processing deficit. This is thefunction. Also, you may receive academic
ability toaccommodations as well as job
take in information, process it quickly and make useaccommodations if diagnosed with an LD.In order to
of it. Most peoplefind out if you have a learning disability, it will be
with ADD are either slower than others in doing thisnecessary to go through a lengthy set of tests that
or have troublecompare and
doing it at all. It is not that they do not understandcontrast your IQ, personality and interests. If you
the information,do
but conflicting signals will make it difficult to fullysignificantly better on one aspect of a test than
process.Another common learning disability in peopleanother, this could
with ADHD is workingsignify a learning disability. For example, if you do
memory problems. Working memory is another termreally well on
for short termthe verbal part of your IQ test and not so well on
memory, or information that is told to you in thethe visual/spatial
moment. Thissection of the IQ test, you may have a learning
can affect information you hear, read, etc. Workingdisability.It is not known exactly why ADD often
memory is importantcomes with some type of learning
for doing well academically and in your work.Anotherdisability. Most likely, the atypical wiring of an ADD'er
learning disability that is common in ADHD clients ishas something
problemsto do with it. New research is being done every day
with visual/spatial processing. This is not tooon the brain
surprising since mostand how it works, and science definitely does not
people with ADHD have problems with organizinghave all the answers
space.to these questions yet.Keith Londrie II is a well
Academically, this will affect subjects such asknown author. For more information on ADHD, please
geometry and physics.Other common learningvisit ADHD for a wealth of information.
disabilities are dyslexia, reading comprehension,