The person with weak processing abilities may have problems developing receptive and expressive language, lack awareness of sounds of words or sequence of syllables, poor sequencing of numbers, or letters in words, difficulty expressing themselves orally lack of awareness of what s going on around them impaired ability to learn from books, difficulty with handwriting Another piece of the puzzle is cortical hemisphere dominance or long-term memory. Cortical hemisphere dominance refers to the establishment of a controlling hemisphere of the brain, separation of, or specialization of neurological function. This separation of function is possible when dominance has been achieved. Dominance is established when the individual has a dominant hand, eye, ear and foot all on the same side. The left-handed person need be left eyed, eared, and footed.
Lets look at an example.
Think of your brain as filing cabinets. When the brain s secretary retrieves information she can find it quickly thus the child is considered a normal or gifted learner. This causes her to find the information really slowly, not at all or reversed. This child is a struggling learner with a variety of labels like dyslexic. First, you provide a detailed developmental, medical, and educational client history form that describes the level of function of the central nervous system.