WHAT IS A LEARNING DISABILITY
A learning disability (LD) means a person has significant deficits in acquiring and using listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, and mathematical abilities.
Other terms used to include such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. Learning disabilities are intrinsic and may be present through adulthood.
Although learning disabilities may occur with other disabilities, learning disabilities are not a result of these disabilities.
Deficits in attention, self-regulatory behavior, social perception, and social interaction may also exist but do not by themselves constitute a learning disability.
Researchers have estimated that learning disabilities affect 5-10% of the general population. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) may occur simultaneously, but it is a separate disorder. ADHD includes distractibility, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
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