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Specific Learning Disability (SLD)

Note: If the child has IQ above 85, yet shows below listed characteristics, it indicates presence of a
SLD. If IQ report not available, look for the underlined characteristics.

• Does the child have difficulty in maintaining attention while performing a given task without
getting distracted when unsupervised

• Does the child have difficulty in completing the task within the prescribed time-limit when
unsupervised

• Does the child commit pattern of consistent errors as listed below:

- Leaves letters or words while reading a line from a text

- Has difficulty tracking lines or words in a row therefore uses finger for tracking while reading

- Has difficulty organizing things for example by shape, colour or size such as placing books in
a school bag systematically by size or arranging cloths on a rack in categories of size and use

- Difficulty in copying from black board without missing letters or words

- Difficulty in using mathematical symbols and understanding relation between numbers

- Difficulty in differentiating letter such as ‘b’ and ‘d’, or numbers like ‘9’ and ‘6’

- Difficulty in maintaining a straight line or leaving appropriate space between words

- Difficulty in understanding use of punctuations while reading and writing

- Difficulty in comprehending word problems and understanding the meaning and relationship
between numbers and sentences

- Difficulty in selecting or filtering specific details to answer a question from a story, passage
or a narration of an incident

- Difficulty in locating an object when given specific sequence of instruction for example: “look
for a green book on right side of the table on the top corner”

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