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Learning Disability Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Deafness
A Resource for Educators, Deafness Professionals, Parents, and the Deaf Community
Identifying deaf individuals with LD and ADHD is difficult because deafness itself creates challenges for language and social development that sometimes resemble the challenges created by LD and ADHD. Legal, testing, and cultural issues also complicate efforts to identify and help deaf individuals with LD or ADHD.
General
LD and ADHD Sites/Services
- The National
Center for Learning Disabilities
Offers information, resources and referral services for adults and children with learning disabilities. - Schwablearning.org offers tools to help parents identify learning differences in their children as well as support for family and emotional issues.
- Ld Pride Online is a Canadian site for individuals with LD, ADHD, mental illness, or neurological disorders. It was inspired by Deaf Pride.
- addresource.com is a search engine for ADHD-related information
Deafness
LD and ADHD Sites/Services
- Alabama State Rehabilitation Agency has developed a screening instrument and a rehabilitation program for post-secondary deaf adults and high school students.
- SAISD (Substance and Alcohol Intervention Services for the Deaf) is a useful resource for deaf individuals who are at high-risk for substance abuse and addiction due to ADHD.
- SAISD Bibliography The SAISD (Substance and Alcohol Intervention Services for the Deaf) bibliography provides useful publications on identification and assessment strategies for deaf individuals who are at high-risk for substance abuse and addiction. Copies of the listed articles can be obtained by request through the SAISD website.
- The Test of Variables of Attention is a continuous performance test for identifying ADHD. Recent research has shown that this test will someday be valid for use with the deaf population once it is properly normed on deaf children and adults. The currently provided norms for hearing people should not be used with deaf individuals. See the article by Parasnis, Samar, & Berent for more information on how deaf people perform differently on this test compared with hearing people.
Assessment
and Legal Issues
- Guidelines for Documentation of a Learning Disability in Adolescents and Adults
- Booklet Available: Legal Issues Specific to Serving Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Institutions of Higher Education
- Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
- DEAF-L is a listserv dealing with issues of interest to the deaf community and deafness professionals. Subscription instructions are at this site.
Downloadable Article: Evaluating ADHD in the deaf population: Challenges to validity, by I. Parasnis, V. Samar, & G. Berent. - Downloadable Article: Identifying learning disabilities in the deaf population: The leap From Gibraltar, by V. Samar.
