...Learning disability (sometimes called a learning disorder or learning difficulty), is a disorder in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors. The unknown factor is the disorder that affects the brain's ability to receive and process information. This disorder can make it problematic for a person to learn as quickly or in the same way as someone who isn't affected by a learning disability. Learning disability is not indicative of intelligence level. Rather, people with a learning disability have trouble performing specific types of skills or completing tasks if left to figure things out by themselves or if taught in conventional ways. Read full entry
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learning disability?
I need to get a learning
disability test because I want
more time on my standarized
test. where do i get that?
please don't get me wrong, I
do have the problem.
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If you get tested through the school, your parents have to sign a release, then you have to go through several weeks of observation, modificatons/ accomodations to make sure that you can be successful in the classroom setting with a few changes. Then a team sit together to talk about your performance and they determine if you need to be tested for a disability. To qualify as having a learning disability you have to have a 16 point difference between your IQ and and your performance on an achievement test. If the team decides you do not need to be tested, but can verify through observations and performances during that six week period, that you can be successful with modifications, then you MIGHT qualify for a 504 plan, which could enable you to have the modification of having more time on tests/ exams. Do not count on these things happening unless you are not successful in the classroom. If you do not agree with the school's findings or test results you can go to a psychologist or psychiatrist and they can administer the IQ and achievement test. The modifications are designed to level the playing field for kids who are not successful in the classroom, they are not usually given to students who can make a "b" or "C" in the regular education setting. |
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Is it common for autistic I know there are some autistic
people out there that don't
have difficulty in learning. I
have moderate autism and a
learning disability, so I just
want to know how common it is
for autistic people to have
learning disability.
Is there any link between
autism and learning
disability?
If you have autism, do you
have a learning disability and
how fast can you learn? If
your children has autism, do
they have a learning
disability and how well can
they learn?
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Yes, but it's impossible to know just how common. Psychologists will tell you that many autistic students also have learning disabilities. Most commonly, you see learning disabilities in reading comprehension, written expression, and math reasoning for higher functioning autistic students. For others you may also see problems with basic reading (the ability to recognize and pronounce words) or speech and language impairment. Autistic students might be able to read aloud a text far above their grade level, but be unable to answer comprehension questions about very simple children's books. That would be a learning disability in reading comprehension. They may be great at arithmetic problems. But if you give one a word problem to see how they come up with a strategy to solve it, they might just add every number mentioned in the problem and give you the sum as their answer. That might be a learning disability in math reasoning. However, autistic individuals are very special--not at all standard. Psychologists have to make so many special accomodations and adjustments just to get through the standardized tests, that the scores they get from them are basically meaningless and definitely not standardized. In other words, autism sometimes makes it impossible to accurately test for learning disabilities. Most of the time, we don't have much more of an idea of what the autistic student can do than we did before we gave them the test. |
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How is a learning disability Anybody can get a learning
disability. You don't have to
have a physical disability to
get one.
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Well I guess sometimes you get the feeling that people pretend to have a disability, or a bigger one than they actually have, in order to get a free ride or to get excused from trying. Nobody likes to see that. However, it seems unkind to judge people with disabilities using the same criteria as used for those without them. It's like someone with a job telling someone without a job to 'get a job'. Sometimes it just ain't that easy! Always do the best you are capable of, so that you don't have to make excuses. And don't judge others too harshly - you don't know their true experiences. Two rules for life! |
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