Is this a learning disability or ds just being a 6 yo boy?

[thundersweet]

For a while now i have been kind of worried about my 6 yo ds. He'll be 7 at the end of July. He has trouble remembering things. Like we worked forever it seems on number recognition. He knows his letter sounds now but still working through the multi-letter phonograms. I taught him letter sounds first and now going back and teaching him the names of the alphabet letters. Again, he has most of them now but it takes a while for him to remember. Sometimes he'll hit his head cause he just can't recall.

 

Yesterday we went to Olive Garden for lunch. Later in the day when i asked him where we went for lunch, he just could not remember. He couldn't remember what he ate either!!! It took a lot of coaxing on my part. lol

 

Another example....the other day he had moved around two chairs in the living room. They normally face the fireplace. When i told him to move the chairs back he did but he faced them looking away from the fireplace towards the room i was in. I asked him if that was the way the chairs always looked and he pushed them a little closer and said "yep".

 

Is this just normal for an active little boy or is something else going on? I have no idea how to go about finding testing if this might be some type of learning disability.

 

Thanks,

Sandy

[abbeyej]

The chairs thing is what pushes me toward the side of "investigate". The others are maybe borderline -- hard to know without more context. But being completely unaware of the spatial organization of furniture in the home he *lives* in? Combined with a pattern of the other types of things you mention? That sounds like something more than "just being a little boy". (Not remembering lunch? Lol. That could totally be "just a little boy". ;))

[boscopup]

The chairs thing is what pushes me toward the side of "investigate". The others are maybe borderline -- hard to know without more context. But being completely unaware of the spatial organization of furniture in the home he *lives* in? Combined with a pattern of the other types of things you mention? That sounds like something more than "just being a little boy". (Not remembering lunch? Lol. That could totally be "just a little boy". ;))

:iagree:

 

It's normal to forget some things they did that day (sometimes asking him what he did at school that day was like talking to a wall), but the chair thing raises a red flag to me, especially combined with the other things.

[cholderby]

:iagree: too.

 

If you have the financial means, get it checked out. Either something will be found so it can be dealt with, or your mind will be put at ease. Its a win-win.