This article focusses on the review of research studies done on the area of learning disabilities and the need to conduct more research studies in this area. School children are seen to have different types of learning difficulties with regard to academics. Children with learning disability, who occupy the largest number receiving special education, are not recognized much in schools. It is mis...

A person-centred approach is needed to improve access to secondary health care for people who have learning disabilities. The Department of Health (1995a) drew attention to this issue when it reported that people with learning disabilities sometimes have problems maintaining their health because hospitals fail to work in an interdisciplinary manner with the specialist learning disability servic...

We compared the level of agreement among four models used to diagnose learning disabilities (LD), including the simple discrepancy, intraindividual, intellectual ability-achievement, and underachievement models. The sample included 170 clinic-referred university students. The simple discrepancy model diagnosed significantly more students with LD than the other three models. The highest degree o...

A study of the psychosocial functioning of young adults with a history of learning disability (LD) in childhood is reported. The design was a non-clinic community follow-up investigation of a cohort of children who had received special education, the sample frame for which was a birth-period cohort survey. Participants were 149 young adults (89 males and 60 females derived from a survey of the ...

Several factors may contribute to a child's failure to learn, some possible causes of school failure are specific learning disabilities. Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disabilities; dyslexia is to fail to learn to read in spite of adequate environment, normal intelligence, and decent educational opportunities. Various studies have recently focused on dyslexia on different scientifi...

Background: fine motor function of school-aged children with dyslexia, learning disabilities and learning difficulties. Aim: this study aimed to characterize the fine motor, sensory and perceptive function of school-aged children with dyslexia, learning disabilities and learning difficulties and to correlate these results with the analysis of the children’s handwriting. Method: participants wer...

The sterilisation of people with learning disabilities was a procedure that took place with disturbing frequency during the first four decades of the 20th century (Park and Radford, 1998). This was largely associated with the Eugenics movement, in the mistaken belief that eliminating the opportunities of people with learning disabilities to reproduce would eliminate the incidence of learning di...

The International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD) is a voluntary association of the premiere scientists, educators, and clinicians in the field of learning disabilities throughout the world. The Academy was formed in 1976 by Dr. William Cruickshank (USA) and Dr. Jacob Valk (The Netherlands) with the intention of providing a forum for the exchange of information and the adv...

This study contrasted the development of processing speed in children with and without learning disabilities. We examined whether the same global mechanism presumed to be responsible for the normal developmental improvement in processing speed might also be associated with the processing speed deficiencies observed in children with learning impairments. One hundred and twenty-two children with ...

The search for a unique biological marker of language-based learning disabilities has so far yielded inconclusive findings. Previous studies have shown a plethora of auditory processing deficits in learning disabilities at both the perceptual and physiological levels. In this study, we investigated the association among brainstem timing, cortical processing of stimulus differences, and literacy...