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Language-based learning disability
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<p>Language-based learning disabilities or LBLD are "<a href="/facts/Heterogenous/y84KQJxl">heterogeneous</a>" neurological differences that can affect skills such as listening, <a href="/facts/Reason/tcBImN8J">reasoning</a>, speaking, reading, writing, and math calculations. It is also associated with movement, coordination, and direct attention. LBLD is not usually identified until the child reaches school age. Most people with this disability find it hard to communicate, to express ideas efficiently and what they say may be ambiguous and hard to understand It is a neurological difference. It is often hereditary, and is frequently associated to specific language problems. </p><p>There are two types of learning disabilities: non-verbal, which includes disabilities from psychomotor difficulties to <a href="/facts/Dyscalculia/4YsInflm">dyscalculia</a>, and verbal, language based. </p>