Assessment and support for children, adolescents and adults with learning difficulties

Sometimes referred to as “specific learning disabilities,” the term learning disabilities is an umbrella term used to describe a range of disorders that affect one’s ability to learn. Some of the main issues noticed when one is struggling with a learning disability are, but not limited to:

• Struggles with processing information (auditory and visual perception) impact reading, spelling, writing, understanding and using language.
• Being disorganized and unable to prioritize due to poor integration abilities (organization, sequencing, and abstraction)
• Having a difficulty with comprehension.
• Problems storing and retrieving information (long-term and short-term memory)
• Clumsiness or difficulty with handwriting
• Inability to follow instructions.
• Inability to manage workload due to poor time management skills
• Lower grades at school

While these struggles may appear to have an emotional link, learning disabilities are the result of poor cognitive functioning. Weakness in one of the more core cognitive skills leads to all these challenges that make learning, school, home, work, and in general life difficult.

Although being pivotal to your or your child’s learning and academic success, one’s executive function skills are not set in stone and can be enhanced with the help of brain training. When faced with intense mental activities, the brain is able to rewire itself, creating new neural connections that improve one’s performance and efficiency. Based on neuroplasticity, brain training just does that. Book your cognitive skills assessment and take the first step to uncovering the underlying cause of your or your child’s struggles.

We, at Cambridge Medical Centre, understand the challenges arising from these weaknesses and continually work towards providing you with the treatment you may require. In hopes of being your safe space, we encourage you to reach out to us if you suspect that your child may have a learning disability.

To have a consultation with one of our qualified team of clinicians, you can call the Cambridge Medical Centre on +971 4 554 3245, or alternatively, you can book online by clicking here.