Difficulties with receptive language (oral and written):

• Following instructions

• Attending to new information

• Recalling information

• Reasoning

• Discriminating between essential and non-essential information

• Interpreting puns, jokes and idioms

• Understanding cause and effect

• Applying critical thinking
  
  

Difficulties with expressive language (oral and written):

• Conversational skills

• Vocabulary

• Classroom discourse

• Grammar

• Explanations

• Sequencing information

• Describing thoughts, feelings and ideas

• Narratives and story-telling

• Topic maintenance
  
  

Difficulties with numeracy learning:

• Linking one or more concepts together

• Comprehending task requirements

• Recalling key math concepts and processes

• Interpreting written maths problems

• Understanding maths concepts and vocabulary

• Comparing, contrasting and classifying

Difficulties with literacy learning:

• Confusion with rules and patterns of sequences, words, letter names and sounds

• Reading and writing across the curriculum

• Not using a wide range of strategies for reading and spelling

• Poor reading fluency

• Poor reading comprehension and interpretation of written information

• Accessing key information and reformulating it

• Sentence structure and narratives

Difficulties with organisation:

• Organising and sequencing thoughts and ideas

• Lack of strategies to get started on a task

• Reduced ability to recall and manipulate language

• Often cannot find books or tools

• Weak concept of their place in time

• Needs support to complete a task

• Weak problem solving
  
  

Difficulties with problem-solving:

• Being unsure of the meaning of words

• Reduced ability to independently comprehend problems

• Knows facts but can’t put them together

• Gives answers that don’t match the question

• Frequently acts without a plan

• Difficulty identifying important facts and details

Difficulties with social emotional development:

• Depression, anger, frustration, withdrawal and aggression

• Can be ‘class clown’ / disruptive

• Low self-esteem and anxiety affecting socialisation and task performance

• Inappropriate coping mechanisms

• Easily upset by changes in routines

• Can be a loner and socially isolated

• Difficulties making and maintaining friends
  
  

Difficulties with coordination and movement:

• Poor performance in physical activities and sports

• Poor handwriting / drawing

• Poor finger / hand dexterity

• Poor awareness of body in space

• Difficulties with speech development