Learning Disability

Learning Disabilities

Many people live with learning disabilities each and every day. Since 1963 has provided support to people with learning disabilities for someone that has been diagnosed with a learning disability they may feel that it takes over their lives. But with the right help it will not affect their ultimate success in life. In this research essay I will be talking about what a learning disorder is how to detect that a child has a learning disorder and how it affects children in school and ways to treat them.

Learning disabilities is a classification including several disorders 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. 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. Learining disabilities vary from person to person. One person with learning disabilities may not have the same kind of learning problems as another person with learning disabilities. People who have learning disabilities are not dumb or lazy they usually have average or above average intelligence. Their brains just process information differently.

Sadly there is no cure for learning disabilities. Children with learning disabilities can be high achievers and can be taught ways to get around the learning disability. With the right help children with learning disabilities can and do learn successfully. People who have verbal learning disabilities have difficulty with spoken and written words. The most common and most known verbal learning disability is dyslexia, which causes people to have trouble recognizing or processing the sounds the letters are linked with. Because of this, people with dyslexia have problems writing and reading tasks or assignments. Learning disabilities may be able to read or write adequately but have trouble with other aspects of language. One out of five people in the United States have learning disabilities. This disability is very common all over the world.

Researchers today still do not know what the main cause of learning disorders are but there are many theories on how they develop. First, there are genetic influences. Experts have become more responsive to the idea that learning disabilities run in families and that heredity may play a role. However researchers are still debating whether learning disabilities are in fact genetic or if they show up in families because kids learn and model what their parents. Some experts believe that learning disabilities can brain development is tied to learning disabilities. Problems such as premature birth, lack of oxygen, or low birth weight may have to do with the cause of learning disabilities. Young children who receive head injuries may also be at risk of developing learning disabilities. Infants and young children are susceptible to environmental toxins and poisons which could result in a learning enfeeblement.

There are no physical signs of someone who has a learning disability, therefore it can make learning disabilities hard to recognize. Learning disabilities on average first appear when a person has complexity writing, reading, speaking, figuring out math problems, speaking with a parent or even paying attention in class. Some student's learning disabilities are identified in grade school when a parent or a teacher notices a child can not follow directions for an assignment or is struggling to do work him or she should be able to do with ease. Other children develop complex ways of covering up their learning issues, so that their learning disabilities may not show up until their teen years due to ways of hiding their disability.

Parents can help children with learning disabilities achieve such success by encouraging their strengths, knowing their weaknesses, understanding the educational system, working with professionals and learning about strategies for dealing with specific difficulties Learning disabilities are divided into two main groups: verbal and nonverbal. Students who have verbal learning disabilities have difficulty with spoken and written words.

The most common and most widely known verbal learning disability is dyslexia, which causes people to have trouble recognizing or processing the sounds the letters are linked with. Because of this, people with dyslexia have problems writing and reading tasks or assignments. Some people with verbal learning disabilities may be able to read or write adequately but have trouble