The following is a list of spatial and body awareness deficits often noted in students with a learning disability:
- Easily lost or confused about directions even when the surroundings are familiar
- confuses up and down with right and left, exhitibs directionality problems
- written work exhibits weak spacing of letters and words with some directionality issues
- has great difficulty when columns or graphs are needed in arithmetic
- exhibits some clumsy tendencies
- directionality concepts are initially quite difficult to learn, over, on, beside, under etc