Communications Disorders

The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines a learning disability as:

"a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia" (MedicineNet, 2008).

Children with learning disabilities have trouble learning and using certain skills. Most often affected are reading, writing, listening, speaking, reasoning, and doing math. People can have difficulties in one or more than one area. It is estimated that nearly three million children between the ages of six and twenty-one have some form of a learning disability (MedicineNet, 2008). Researchers continue to work on finding the causes of learning disabilities. For a long time, it was believed they were...
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