Editorial: Is there a core deficit in specific learning disabilities?

Difficulties with learning mathematics and to read have for a long time been categorised into diagnostic categories like dyscalculia dyslexia. This categorization has based on ideas that some core deficits underlie cause the difficulties. However, no clear sufficient deficit found these difficulties qualitative differences identified distinguishing those assigned diagnoses from people not – thus, cut-offs are arbitrary. In addition, several of factors associated one disorder also other disorders. These issues favour multi-factored view implication both clinical practice research.