Learning Disabilities
Students with learning disabilities (LD) have difficulty acquiring basic skills or academic content due to difficulty using or understanding spoken or written language.
These difficulties may impact a student’s ability to read, write, spell, think, speak, listen, or do mathematics. Learning disabilities do not include those difficulties that are primarily due to a student’s intellectual, physical, or emotional disabilities, nor those that are due to a student’s environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantages.
Common learning disabilities include dyslexia, dysgraphia, perceptual disabilities, and developmental aphasia. It is estimated that approximately 6-8% of school-age children have some sort of LD. Some experts believe that lack of and differences in screening protocols have resulted in LD being underreported.
Source: ed.gov
Interested in learning disabilities? Check out CEC's Division for Learning Disabilities!
WPS
WPS provides a broad range of educational and psychological assessments and intervention resources. These resources assist special education teachers, certified academic language therapists, school psychologists, speech and language pathologists, educational diagnosticians, occupational therapists, classroom teachers, reading specialists, counselors, and administrators in helping school-aged children make academic, social, emotional, and behavioral progress. Our tools can be used system-wide, school-wide, at the grade level, classroom level, and individual level to screen, evaluate, intervene