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Learning Disability Checklist

Strengths and Weaknesses

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If you select more weaknesses than strengths, there is a potential social/emotional disorder or disability.All Checklists

Social Skills:

Strengths

  • Easy to establish friends that are within the peer group
  • Accepted by peers
  • Accepts peers
  • Accepts responsibility well
  • Even tempered and has a good disposition
  • Likes to get involved
  • Accepts rules and routines well - will wait turns
Weaknesses
  • Has a difficulty time establishing friends or has friends that are younger
  • Rarely accepted by peers
  • Argues with peers
  • Doesn't accept responsibility well
  • Avoids peer contact and is often ridiculed or involved in ridiculing
  • Demands instant gratification, seeks a great deal of attention
  • Doesn't like to follow routines and rules
  • Prone to tantrums

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