Disability |
Functional Limitation |
| Attention Deficit |
- Difficulty concentration for long periods of time; easily distracted
- Difficulty organizing work and budgeting time
- Problems staying at a desk or task for long periods of time
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| Auditory Perception |
- Difficulty taking information in through sense of hearing and/or in processing this information
- Difficulty in discriminating similar sounds
- Difficulty related to listening to and remembering verbal instructions
- Trouble hearing sounds over background noise
- Fatigue when trying to listen to a talk or lecture
- Difficulty in hearing sounds in the correct order and have problems taking phone messages
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| Dyscalculia (Math) |
- Difficulty with calculation
- Difficulty with rapid processing of math facts
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| Dysgraphia (Writing) |
- Difficulty with the physical act of writing
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| Dyslexia (Reading) |
- Difficulty with any task in which reading is an essential component; examples: reading texts, articles, exams, notes etc.
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| Language Deficit |
- Difficulty articulating words
- Difficulty recalling words to express a feeling or event
- Difficulty communicating similarities and differences
- Difficulty distinguishing past, present and future forms of verbs
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| Memory Deficit |
- Difficulty remembering problems, retaining numerical information such as multiplication tables, dates, etc.
- Difficulty remember rate facts
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| Reasoning Deficit |
- Trouble thinking in an orderly and logical way
- Difficulty prioritizing and sequencing tasks
- Difficulty applying learned skills to a new tasks
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| Social Skills |
- Difficulty discriminating visual cues such as facial expressions and body language
- Difficulty with auditory cues such as voice intonation, enunciation and voice quality
- Difficulty accepting constructive criticism and interpreting humor or sarcasm
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| Spatial Organization |
- Problems perceiving the dimensions of space
- Trouble distinguishing left from right, north from south, up from down, ahead and behind
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| Visual Perception |
- Difficulty taking information in through the sense sight
- Difficulty in processing the information
- Trouble seeing a specific image within a competing background, such as picking a line out of a book
- Trouble seeing the differences between two objects
- Trouble seeing how far away or near an object might be
- Difficulty filling in computerized exam forms
- Difficulty copying information from the board
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