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• May substitute a word related in meaning or sound, as in boat for submarine or selfish for bashful.

Mathematics Characteristics What It Looks Like in an Adult Doesn’t remember and/or retrieve math facts.

• Uses a calculator or counts on fingers for answers to simple problems; e.g., 2 x 5. Doesn’t use visual imagery effectively.

• Can’t do math in his/her head and writes down even simple problems. • Has difficulty making change. Has visual-spatial deficits.

• Confuses math symbols. • Misreads numbers. • Doesn’t interpret graphs or tables accurately. • Has trouble maintaining a checkbook. Becomes confused with math operations, especially multi-step processes.

• Leaves out steps in math problem solving and does them in the wrong order. • Can’t do long division except with a calculator. • Has trouble budgeting. Has difficulties in language processing that affect the ability to do math problem solving.

• Doesn’t translate real-life problems into the appropriate mathematical processes. • Avoids employment situations that involve this set of skills.

Thinking Characteristics What It Looks Like in an Adult Has problems with abstract reasoning.

• Asks to see ideas on paper. • Prefers hands-on ways of learning new ideas. Shows marked rigidity in thinking.

• Resists new ideas or ways of doing things and may have difficulty adjusting to changes on the job. Thinking is random as opposed to orderly, either in logic or chronology. • May have good ideas that seem disjointed, unrelated, or out of sequence. Has difficulty synthesizing ideas.

• Pays too much attention to detail and misses the big picture or idea when