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learning disability
Sign in to saveAlso known as learning disabilities, learning disorder, academic skill disorder, learning difficulty
range of neurodevelopmental conditions
Key facts
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , neurology
- Symptoms
- Learning difficulty, developmental academic disorder, developmental disorder of scholastic skills, knowledge acquisition disability, learning disorder.
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Research
47,041 papers- Learning disability.Lancet (London, England) · 2003
- Learning disability registers: known unknowns and unknown unknowns.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021
- Nonverbal learning disability.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2013
- Autism and learning disability.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2004
- Nonverbal learning disability: adult outcomes.Seminars in clinical neuropsychiatry · 2000
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Learning disabilities
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C89334
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:8927
- ICD-9-CM
- 315.2
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Article
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Learning disability, primarily learning disorder, or learning difficulty (British English) is a condition in the brain that causes difficulties comprehending or processing information and can be caused by several different factors. Given the "difficulty learning in a typical manner", this does not exclude the ability to learn in a different manner. Therefore, some people can be more accurately described as having a "learning difference", thus avoiding any misconception of being disabled with a possible lack of an ability to learn and possible negative stereotyping. In the United Kingdom, the term learning disability generally refers to an intellectual disability, while conditions such as dyslexia and dyspraxia are usually referred to as learning difficulties.