learning disability
Noun: A neurological condition that affects how a person of average or above-average intelligence receives, processes, stores, and responds to information. It creates unexpected difficulties in acquiring specific academic skills, such as reading, writing, or mathematics, despite conventional instruction and adequate effort.
This term is used to describe a category of specific, persistent challenges in learning that are intrinsic to the individual. It is a formal and clinical term often used in educational, psychological, and medical contexts. - It is typically diagnosed through specialized assessment. - It is not due to intellectual disability, lack of educational opportunity, or sensory impairments like blindness. - It is considered a lifelong condition, though its impact can be managed with appropriate strategies and support.
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- Early identification of a learning disability is crucial for providing effective support in school.
- Dyslexia is one of the most common types of learning disability, affecting reading and language processing.
- The student's learning disability primarily impacts her ability to perform mathematical calculations.
- "Specific learning disability (SLD)": This is a more precise term used in many educational and diagnostic systems to refer to a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, which may manifest in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
- His Individualized Education Program (IEP) is designed to address his specific learning disability in written expression.
- Learning difference: A term some prefer for its more neutral or strengths-based connotation, though it is not a clinical diagnosis.
- The school emphasizes strategies that work with each student's unique learning difference.
- Learning difficulty: A broader, sometimes less clinical term that can encompass learning disabilities but may also refer to challenges arising from other causes.
- Dyslexia: A specific learning disability that affects reading.
- Dyscalculia: A specific learning disability that affects mathematical ability.
- Dysgraphia: A specific learning disability that affects written expression.
- Specific learning disorder: The formal diagnostic term used in clinical manuals like the DSM-5.
- Learning disorder: A common synonym used interchangeably with "learning disability."
- To have a learning disability: The standard phrasing to indicate an individual's condition.
- She has a learning disability that affects her short-term memory.
- Learning disability assessment/screening: The process of evaluation.
- Learning disability support/services: The accommodations and interventions provided.
- a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills