Language-based Learning Disability - Diagnosis

Diagnosis

A speech-language pathologist (SLP), psychologist, social worker, and sometimes neurologist work together or individually to find the proper diagnosis for children with LBLD. Additionally, they evaluate speaking, listening, reading, and written language for children who have LBLD.

• SLPs evaluate the child's comprehension skills, and the child’s ability to follow verbal and written directions. Also, they look for responsiveness, and see if the child recognizes familiar signs or holds a book correctly and they look for whether the child knows and/or writes letters, and names.
• Social workers obtain literacy history from the home, and then observe the child during classroom activities, they look for social interactions.
• Psychologists review a child's phonological memory by having him or her repeat series of words, numbers, letters, and sounds. They also look for response from the child to environmental and social factors.
• Neurologists look for motor skills, brain functions which include visual and auditory perception.