Specific Learning Disorders ... self-regulatory behaviors, and social skills. A learning disability is not the result of 1) mental illness, 2) visual, hearing, or motor impairments, 3) intellectual ...

Children with “specific learning disabilities” make up the largest portion, about 40 percent, of 6.6 million students who receive services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities ...

The parents of the advocacy group Decoding Dyslexia Wisconsin pressed for years to see this 11-word definition enshrined in state law: “Dyslexia means a specific learning disability that is ...

SLDs are extremely common, affecting over 10% of the population, with almost 40% of elementary school students having at least some difficulty learning to read. Reading disabilities may include ...

For students with disabilities, that can mean extra support services or altered curriculum. For their families, figuring out a child's education experience can be complicated.