Early Identification
Identifying learning disabilities early can pave the way for children to get the support they need to experience successful futures both in and out of school. Knowing the early warning signs that put young children at risk for learning disabilities and understanding normal developmental milestones helps with early diagnosis and intervention. Read more about the early identification process for LD.
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How Do You Know If Your Child Might Have a Learning Disability?
If you think your child might have a learning disability, this article will help. Dr. Larry Silver tells parents the clues to look for in pre-school and elementary school children. Then the article talks about how to get a "psychoeducational evaluation" to find out for sure.
Learning Disabilities and Young Children: Identification and Intervention
The National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities developed an overview on screening, diagnosing and serving children age four or younger. The document was developed for researchers, administrators, and people who need an academic overview.
Some young children show signs that they may not be learning in an expected manner, even before they begin kindergarten. These children may exhibit problems in areas such as language development, phonological awareness, perceptual-motor abilities, and attention, which have been considered precursors of learning disabilities in older children. However, under current state and federal guidelines, these children are unlikely to meet eligibility criteria for having a learning disability. This is because formal identification of a child's learning disability generally does not occur until there is a measurable discrepancy between the child's aptitude and academic achievement, often not until the second or third grade.
How Can You Tell When Your Child Has Learning Problems?
A Parent's Guide to Accessing Programs for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Disabilities
Waiting Rarely Works: Late Bloomers Usually Just Wilt
Early Screening Is at the Heart of Prevention
Early intervention works. Because it is also expensive, it’s important to be able to identify the kids who are most at risk of reading failure. Thanks to a new generation of screening assessments, we can identify these students as early as kindergarten—and then invest in interventions for them.
Read tips for raising a child with dyslexia, written by a mother of a dyslexic son. This article describes how to get your child evaluated,how to hire and work with a tutor, and ways to work reading and academic skills into your daily life with your child, and how to handle the ups and downs of parenting a child who has troubles in school.
The Identification of Students Who are Gifted
This digest discusses the identification of students who are gifted, the difficulties in the identification process, appropriate identification practices, and procedures that can help with identification.
The Process of Discovery: Finding Out Why Your Child is Struggling
Early Identification - Observation of an Individual Child
Observing and keeping records of children's behavior is one way of gaining insight into what they do, why they do it, and how they change over a period of time. By knowing more about a child, you can better provide experiences that will meet the needs of that particular child and that will help you to expand on the child's interests. The following information is designed to help you develop some of your skills for observing and learning more about children.
Early Identification: Normal and Atypical Development
Early Identification of Speech-Language Delays and Disorders
Helping Young Children with Learning Disabilities at Home
Early Identification - Social Skills Milestones
Early Identification - Motor Skills Milestones
Differences That Might Affect Development
Sometimes a child's differences can be something you can easily see, but for other children, those differences may be hidden.
