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Children and Learning Disabilities What Parents Need to Know

Learning disability. The two words may bring back memories of fellow students being taken out of your classroom and sent to a special room for a few hours a day or a week. Those words have become a negative label, a stigmatism, for many people. But what is a learning disability and why do some people have them and others don’t? And what does it mean if you or your child is diagnosed with a learning disability?

Learning disabilities have been legally described in educational by-laws and under the Americans with Disabilities Act as “a significant gap between a person’s intelligence and the skills a person has achieved at each age.” The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) define a learning disability or LD as “a disorder that affects people’s ability to either interpret what they see and hear or to link information from different parts of the brain. These limitations can show up in many ways—as specific difficulties with spoken and written language, coordination, self-control, or attention. Such difficulties extend to schoolwork and can impede learning to read or write, or to do math.”

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Learning Disabled Children Can Overcome

Learning disabled children are becoming more and more identified and as a result, need assistance. They are represented by all ages, grade levels and within all groups of people. Some are identified as learning disabled and as a result are receiving the appropriate assistance and some are not meaning they are pretty much surviving or not surviving on their own.

Unfortunately, what frequently comes along with these learning disabled children, especially those not getting any assistance, are behavior problems. These behaviors include many different characteristics but one in particular is the acting out child.

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