If you have a teenager, you know the struggles that come with trying to get them out of bed and off to school in time every morning. You may have written this off as your teen not getting enough sleep. But there may be another reason: oftentimes kids with common learning disabilities (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) want to skip school because of the stressors they face there.
Here are the five most common learning disabilities.
1. Auditory Processing Disorder
Do you feel like your teen never listens to you? It might be something other than teenage rebellion.
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a condition that affects the way the brain interprets sound, particularly speech. It’s not really a hearing problem as people with APD can hear sounds just fine in a quiet environment. But in places with lots of background noise, teenagers with APD will have trouble differentiating between someone speaking to them and other noises happening in the surrounding areas.
This can manifest in many ways: Kids with APD often have trouble paying attention in the midst of a noisy classroom, or they may not be able to focus on listening for very long. They may have trouble comprehending higher-level tasks or information, or have problems remembering to do things that have been told to them because of the way they process information.
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists can assist in the diagnosis and treatment of this condition.
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