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Learning Disabilities
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Common Traits and Behaviors of Dyslexics

• Has difficulty telling time, managing time, being on time or learning sequenced information or tasks.
   
• Often confuses left and right.
   
• Can do arithmetic but has trouble with word problems.
   
• Complains of dizziness, nausea, or headaches or stomach aches while reading or studying.

Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities

Our educational system uses the term “learning disabled” (LD) to describe students who have a significant discrepancy between academic achievement and assessed intellectual ability with deficits in one or more of:

•   receptive language (listening, reading).

•   expressive language (talking, spelling, writing).

•   language processing (thinking, conceptualizing, integrating).

•   mathematical computations.

The Davis perspective is that dyslexics may have some or all of the above symptoms as well as many others (see 37 symptoms).  In addition, other learning disabilities such as attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyscalculia, dysgraphia and central auditory processing difficulties are conditions that stem from the same root cause as dyslexia. 

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