Your teen could be suffering from dyslexia, which affects language abilities, dysgraphia, which could affect their writing abilities, or dyscalculia, which
affects mathematical abilities.
Lower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and
mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may
affect development at the level where different
abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehension.