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“Parents need to be concerned when children are not making adequate educational progress,” says Michael Assel, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and a staff psychologist for the Children’s Learning Institute at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). “Essentially, we are talking about a child who is struggling in a content area important for school, typically reading, math or written language.”
Before jumping to conclusions, Assel cautions parents to consider an important issue when thinking about learning differences in their child. “One of the first things that must be considered is the educational environment,” he says. “We want to ensure that a child has had appropriate exposure to quality teaching. For example, it would be unfair to describe a child as having a disability in the area of reading unless that child has been provided with appropriate instruction in [that subject].”
When parents become certain the educational environment is not the problem, then it’s time to confront the possibility that their child might have a learning disability.
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