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Faculty Guide: Learning Disability

See also Accommodations and Communication

A learning disability is caused by differences in brain structure or functioning and leads to difficulties with specific types of learning. As a result, there is a discrepancy between their potential and their performance in some academic areas.

Students with learning disabilities may have neurological issues that may lead to:

  • Trouble taking information in through the senses
  • Difficulty in obtaining and accurately transmitting information from the brain
  • Interference with their ability to process, store, and produce information
  • Poor memory as a result of information storing issues

Areas affected by a learning disability:

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Spelling
  • Math computation
  • Expressive and receptive language skills
  • Auditory and visual processing skills
  • Memory

It is important that learning disabled students receive and transmit information in a form or modality that works best for them. 
 


 Date Updated: 05-JUL-2012
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