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Snapshots

LDAO's new Snapshot series presents concise informative looks at a variety of topics about learning and LDs. These Snapshots are free to share - help yourself! Please keep in mind that these sheets and the information in them are not for sale or resale - free is the word. To view the individual sheets, select the title of the Snapshot. To save the document to your computer, right-click (or alt-select) and select "Save Link As". Choose a location on your

Promotional Materials

Awareness Month Campaign Poster Snapshots with Chapter logos - These snapshots have your own logo on them and are for your use as promotional materials. Logos - select this link for a complete listing of print and web logos for each chapter, and some tips about using them.

Writing and LDs: A Snapshot

About Writing. Writing is a very complex task for anyone – and when writing isn’t working, figuring out what’s gone wrong is equally complex. However, it is possible to improve situations for those who struggle with written language.Writing is composed of a great variety of skills, abilities and knowledge, including specific fine-motor functions visual-spatial abilities language and reading skills organization and sequencing abilities problem-solving and thinking skills memory and attention advanced writing skills such as editing and revising Writing and

Terms You Will Hear: A Snapshot

If you’re new to the field of learning disabilities, you will be coming across a great many new terms and acronyms.This sheet is written to help you navigate those terms. You should also know that these terms do change over time; this is common to all fields, but especially true in newer fields, when concepts are named and refined as our understanding deepens. You will notice, if you research a number of different sites, books or articles, that different terms

Social Skills and LDs: A Snapshot

About Social Skills Learning disabilities can affect any area of a person’s life, including how well we learn the social skills that allow us to live with other people: how to make friends, how to interact with peers, how to deal with authority figures,how to fit in.Since our social lives are so central to human lives,deficits in social skills can be as or more debilitating than academic difficulties. What Sort of LD is That? Social skills can be impacted by

Reading and LDs: A Snapshot

What is Reading? Reading is one of those remarkable things that most people do without understanding how or why it works -- we just learn to read, and then we use our ability to read to keep learning. Of course, it isn’t that easy for many people, and it only seems easy to those who don’t struggle with it. Reading is a very complicated skill, and our use of the written word has had a massive impact on our world.

Nonverbal LDs: A Snapshot

About Nonverbal LDs. Nonverbal learning disabilities (sometimes called NLDs, or NVLDs) are a large group of learning disabilities that are best defined in terms of their symptoms. In general, NLDs do not affect language skills - but they are more complicated than that. For example, nonverbal LDs can affect: understanding of non-verbal communication like facial expressions and body language and tone of voice physical coordination visual-spatial organization ( the process our brains use to organize information visually in space. Having

Mathematics and LDs: A Snapshot

About Mathematics and LDs. Mathematics can be affected by learning disabilities – as frequently, according to some, as language skills are affected. Historically, students with math LDs were not generally referred for evaluation, and children who have been identified with this sort of LD have not received the level of intervention and remediation that is provided for language skills. Literacy skills were generally seen as more crucial than numeracy; it has been traditionally assumed that it is alright to “be

Learning Disabilities: A Snapshot

What Are Learning Disabilities? Learning disabilities (LDs) are very common – an estimated 5-10 percent of Canadians have LDs, and some 50% of students receiving special education have LDs. However, learning disabilities are not widely understood.This confusion has much to do with the fact that LDs are very diverse, complicated disabilities.We hope that this sheet and package help make clear the nature of LDs and how learning is affected by them. About Learning Disabilities Learning disabilities refers to a variety

About Labels and Labelling

There are a lot of labels and labelling issues in the field of learning disabilities. There are questions about the word "disability", there are questions about the specific names of specific LDs, and to make things even more complicated, the terms mean different things in different places. Here are some of our thoughts about the issues, the terms, and ways of thinking about them. "Learning Disabilities?" Right off the top, many people wonder whether "learning disabilities" is the best label