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In academics, the symptoms of the students suspected to have a learning disability in Hong Kong, like dyslexia, can be easily observed. In terms of reading, they might have difficulty in reading fluently, and often mispronounce words or forget the pronunciations. As the development in the structure of their brains is different, they might get tired easily and need extra effort to concentrate in order to complete reading and writing tasks. Children that are known to have learning difficulties in Hong Kong might struggle in retelling the idea after reading a text. In terms of writing, children with such a learning disability in Hong Kong might have difficulty with spelling or word dictation despite paying considerable effort to learn. Omitting strokes, letters or adding unnecessary ones when copying Chinese characters or alphabetical letters in English are also commonly seen among young children with dyslexic learning difficulties in Hong Kong. It is also common to see messy handing, weak comprehension of writing.However, we cannot make an official diagnosis based on a few symptoms that we can observe, as such a diagnosis must be completed by a registered Educational Psychologist. You are welcome to contact us for a referral for your child with suspected learning difficulties in Hong Kong.

At preschool age, children with a learning disability in Hong Kong may start speaking at a later age than that of the children at the same age. Also, they may encounter articulation problems, such as finding it difficult and taking longer time to read letters, numbers and words. At early primary school age, children with learning difficulties in Hong Kong are significantly seen to have difficulties in associating the sounds to the Chinese characters or English words, as well as blending and segmenting sounds letters in English. Also, they may have confusion in words that have similar sounds or shapes. These problems may result in dictation errors, such as missing or confusing the radical components of Chinese characters, wrong sequence of strokes in writing Chinese characters, and missing or reversing the order of letters in English words. At a later primary age, children may show increasing difficulties in reading and writing. In reading, they may struggle to understand the implied meaning, the writer’s thoughts in reading comprehension; in writing, they may find it challenging in organising and expressing with words. When reaching secondary school age, students are required to have substantial organisation skills and executive functioning in order to achieve better academic performance independently. However, students with learning difficulties in Hong Kong may show great weaknesses in these areas. With weak organisation skills and lack of working memory, they may also have difficulties in note taking during their learning experience. Thus, these may lead to academic failure, causing low self-esteem and poor peer relationships. Facing a learning disability in Hong Kong, it is understandable that students may have social and emotional problems, at school and home. Hong Kong children with learning difficulties, like being dyslexic, are commonly seen to have other comorbid developmental problems as well, such as language disorder, developmental coordination disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), but at the same time, they can also be quite gifted too!

With appropriate learning disability Hong Kong intervention and strategies, your child will overcome their learning difficulties in the future. Most importantly, we need to be a supportive facilitator to give enough guidance throughout the learning journey of your child. Children with learning difficulties in Hong Kong can also be very successful. With Walt Disney, Albert Einstein and Beethoven, just to name a few, there have been many successful examples of famous people who are diagnosed to have dyslexia. They are all very talented, and so is your child. Parents should not forget to find out the strengths of their dyslexic children through appropriate learning disability Hong Kong interventions!