If your child continues to struggle academically even after treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), he or she may be among the 30 to 50 percent of individuals with ADHD who also have a learning disability (LD). The symptoms in this self-test relate primarily to elementary school, which is when LD is most often identified. Complete this test and take the results to an education professional for evaluation.
This self-test is designed to determine whether your child shows symptoms similar to those with learning disabilities, but it is not a diagnostic tool. A trained educational psychologist can make a diagnosis of learning disabilities through clinical evaluation. This self-test is for personal use only.
From the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.
Does your child have real trouble with spelling, remembering the sounds that letters make, or hearing slight differences between words?
Does your child appear awkward or clumsy, dropping, spilling, or knocking things over a lot?
Does or did your child have trouble with buttons, hooks, snaps, and zippers? Or with learning to tie his or her shoes?
Did your child have trouble learning the alphabet, rhyming words, or connecting letters to their sounds?
Does your child have trouble understanding humor, puns, comic strips, idioms, and sarcasm?
