1.) Visual-Spatial: In kindergarten and early elementary grades, children with problems in this realm may exhibit some of the following behaviors:

• Have difficulty differentiating coins
• Have difficulty differentiating coins
• · Have difficulty discriminating among operation signs
• · Have difficulty discriminating among operation signs
• Have difficulty noticing and identifying relationships and differences among shapes
• Have difficulty with such concepts as right, left, up, and down

2.) Memory: In kindergarten and early elementary grades, children with problems in this realm may exhibit some of the following behaviors:

• Have difficulty retaining newly presented material and instructions (short-term memory)
• Have difficulty solving multi-step operations and word problems in logical manner (working memory)
• Have difficulty retrieving math facts (long-term memory)
• Have difficulty sequencing such things as days of the week and months (temporal-sequential memory)

3.) Language Processing: In kindergarten and early elementary grades, children with problems in this realm may exhibit some of the following behaviors:

• Have difficulty understanding spoken directions (receptive language)
• Have difficulty counting aloud (expressive language)
• Have difficulty with rapid oral drills (expressive language)
• Have difficulty expressing their ideas orally in fluent, clear sentences (expressive language)
• Have difficulty reading and understanding a word problem (reading comprehension)
• Have difficulty with specialized math vocabulary
• Have difficulty understanding multi-meanings of words. For instance, a child may understand the term "volume" only as it applies to the loudness of a sound and not understand it as a geometric concept.

4.) Graphomotor: In kindergarten and early elementary grades, children with problems in this realm may exhibit some of the following behaviors:

• Have difficulty with number formation, e.g., transposition, and/or reversal
• Cannot place words or numbers evenly and clearly on a page
• Have tense, awkward pencil grip
• Write at an unusually slow pace

5.) Executive Function: In kindergarten and early elementary grades, children with problems in this realm may exhibit some of the following behaviors:

• Have difficulty dealing with independent work that requires multi-steps. Will get easily confused.

 

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