Learning Disabilities

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect a person’s ability to understand or respond to new information, or they are disorders that affect the ability to remember information that appears to have been taken in. Learning disabilities tend to cause problems with listening skills, language skills (including speaking, reading or writing), and mathematical operations. Learning disabilities can also cause problems in coordinating movements, making the child seem and feel awkward.

Medication can be tried to enhance attention and concentration, but because medicine usually meets with mixed results, health care practitioners place an emphasis on therapy and special education.