Disha NEET Physics Guide for classes 11 and 12.pdf
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2. About 5% of children had ADHD without learning disability, 5% had learning
disability without ADHD, and 4% had both ADHD and learning disability
3. Approximately 9.5% or 5.4 million children
4-17 years of age have been diagnosed
with ADHD, as of 2007.
Boys, 13.2%, are more likely than girls,
5.6%, to be diagnosed with ADHD
4. The most common cause of reading, writing and spelling difficulties.
5. Almost equally affects females and
males
Almost the same percentage of people
from different ethnic and socioeconomic
backgrounds have dyslexia
Less than 33% of children with reading
disabilities receive school services
6. Percentage of the population that is diagnosed with dyscalculia, a learning
disability of comprehending arithmetic, compared to dyslexia
7. 40-50% of dyslexics show no signs of
dyscalculia
between 3% and 6% of the population
are affected
8. a neurological disorder that is characterized by writing disabilities and difficulty with
the mechanics of writing
9. The percentage of primary school
students with dysgraphia may increase
4% due to difficulty of handwriting
Up to 20% increase in middle schooler
students because written compositions
become difficult