This post was co-authored by Miranda Melcher. What follows are 10 ways parents can take the best practices offered in the previous post, “Helping Families Navigate the Complexity of Raising a Child ...

The chapter begins by reviewing recent estimates of the prevalence of learning disabilities (LDs), followed by trend estimates from the general population. The chapter concludes with a comparison of ...

Intellectual disabilities affect a child’s ability to learn and function at levels considered typical for their age. Learning disabilities affect a child’s ability to master specific skills, like ...

Reading difficulties likely occur on a continuum, meaning that there is a wide range of students who experience reading difficulties. There are those students who are diagnosed with a learning ...

Children born in December are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with a learning disorder as those born in January in school districts with a December 31 cut-off date. ADHD was found not to affect ...

VSLD questionnaire was designed by pooling 50 questions from published visual function and social function tools, patient interest groups (RNIB, SeeAbility), patient advocates and learning disability ...