Disorders of the basic psychological processes that affect the way a child learns. Many children with learning disabilities have average or above average intelligence. Learning disabilities may cause difficulties in listening, thinking, talking, reading, writing, spelling, or arithmetic. Included are perceptual handicaps, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. Excluded are learning difficulties caused by visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, mental retardation, emotional disturbances, or environmental disadvantage.
Disorders that interfere with specific aspects of learning and school achievement. (290)
General term for learning disorders, communication disorders, and motor skills disorder.
Could be any number of disabilities that affect an individual's ability to learn.
Learning disabilities vary in type and range from mild to severe. The essence of this diagnosis is that the individual possesses many average to above average intellectual abilities but struggles to academically achieve to their intellectual potential in one or more academic area. Excellent options exist for assisting students with learning disabilities to address their challenges and utilize their strengths, including many of our own learning programs and tutoring services that you can review on this website.
A specific set of problems which cause a person to have difficulty in understanding.
4] - any form of physical or mental disability that delays development or acquisition of knowledge.
These are impairments in a specific mental process that affects learning.The conditions can exist to varying degrees in different people.
Conditions that cause people to understand and process information more slowly than average. These people may require information to be presented in multiple formats (see and hear it for example) before they completely understand it.
One or more impairments in reading, mathematics, and/or written expression skills which interfere with academic performance in school or in activities of daily living requiring those skills.
Disorders in one or more of the basic processes involved in understanding spoken or written language. They may show up as problems in listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, or spelling, or in the ability to do math, despite at least average intelligence. The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or physical handicaps, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, or environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
The term learning disability is used to refer to socio-biological conditions that affect a persons communicative capacities and potential to learn. Someone with a learning disability does not necessarily have low or high intelligence, it just means this individual is working far below their ability due to a processing disorder, such as auditory processing or visual processing. Learning disabilities are usually identified by school psychologists through testing of intelligence, academics and processes of learning.
childhood disorders characterized by difficulty with certain skills such as reading or writing in individuals with normal intelligence.
Impairment in a specific mental process that affects learning.
a condition that makes it hard for a person to take in, sort, and store information; not a sign of below-average intelligence.
a number of conditions that include dyslexia, problems understanding math, spelling difficulties, and reading disabilities; not caused by the eyes but by the brain's inability to quickly interpret images seen by the eyes.
Rule 340.1713 of the Michigan Department of Education's Revised Administrative Rules for Special Education (November 2002) defines “specific learning disability” as a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculation. The term includes such conditions as perceptual impairments, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not include children who have learning problems that are primarily the result of a visual, hearing, or motor impairment; a cognitive impairment; an emotional impairment; autism; or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
encompasses a wide variety of learning difficulties for students. In general, a learning disability describes a discrepancy between a child's intelligence and academic achievement. Some people have learning disabilities only in specific areas, such as mathematics.
Children with learning disabilities may be of average or above average intelligence, but have difficulty learning, sorting, and storing information in a traditional classroom setting. LD classes allow them to reach their potential in a non-threatening environment.
Learning disabilities is a broad term used to refer to disorders that affect a person's ability to interpret what they see or hear and link information from different parts of the brain. These disorders usually manifest as problems with reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematics. Learning disabilities are neurological, lifelong disorders, but can often be overcome through appropriate intervention and support.
One or more disorders of the processes needed to understand and/or use spoken or written language, resulting in the limited ability to listen, speak, read, spell or do mathematics. Persons with learning disabilities often have above average intelligence.