2023 Volume 47 Issue 1 Pages 95-108
The cause of learning difficulties among children with foreign roots tends to be considered low abilities of their second language, which are due to the language environment. Consequently, the identification of learning disabilities is delayed. This study reported a boy in the eighth grade who experienced learning difficulties correspond this case. His vocabulary, reading, and writing skills in Japanese were equivalent to or lower than children in the lower grades of elementary school, and he displayed low cognitive abilities for the development reading and writing skills. Since he had lived in Japan for about eleven years, his language skills in Japanese could not be attributed solely to environment factors, and he was suspected to be learning disabilities. We assume that teachers lack experience in teaching children with foreign roots, and they lack awareness of learning difficulties which are due to learning disabilities. These might result in delay in identification of learning disabilities among children with foreign roots.
