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Article #93: Weak Cognitive Skills Are Cause of Learning Disabilities

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Learning Disabilities affect people in instruction. Weak cognitive skills can
all walks of life each and every day. impact learning heavily because during
These disorders can include dyslexia the process of reading and understanding
(impairment of ability to recognize and there are many processes going on. If one
comprehend written words), dyscalculia of those processes is weak it could throw
(impairment of ability to solve off the whole learning process for an
mathematics problems), dysgraphia individual. When reading a student must
(inability to write), dyspraxia (motor process visual images which consist of
skill coordination problems), and letters and words, and at the same time
auditory and visual process disorders they must recall and associate those
(difficulty understanding language or images with correct sounds. Mental
images). A learning disability is most associations must be formed by those
simply defined as a neurological sounds to make the words they are
disorder. associated with, and one has to
The definition used by the U.S government comprehend what the word means and how it
for purposes of legislation and applies to what they are reading. It is
qualifying students for special education easy to see how a weak cognitive skill
funds is the following: can throw off the whole learning curve.
"Specific learning disability" means a The good news about learning disabilities
disorder in one or more of the basic affected by weak cognitive skills is that
psychological processes involved in they can be changed for the better by
understanding or in using language, specific testing and training. These
spoken or written, which may manifest changes can be rapid and dramatic for
itself in an imperfect ability to listen, those that struggle with the various
think, speak, read, write, spell, or to learning disabilities. Cognitive skills
do mathematical calculations. The term testing is available all across the
includes such conditions as perceptual nation. A quality learning center that
handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain runs cognitive skills testing will
dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental uncover specific cognitive skill
aphasia. The term does not include weaknesses and will customize training to
children who have learning problems which strengthen those weaknesses. Getting you
are primarily the result of visual, or your child tested for a learning
hearing, or motor handicaps, of mental disability can completely and literally
retardation, of emotional disturbance, or change lives.
of environmental, cultural, or economic According to the National Institutes of
disadvantage. Health, one in seven Americans, struggles
A learning disability is most widely with some type of learning disability,
caused by weak underlying cognitive proving the importance of getting you or
skills. Other factors contributing to your family members tested for cognitive
learning disabilities include basic skills weaknesses.
genetic limits or poor and inadequate






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