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What Is A Learning Disability?

A person with average or above average intelligence who is unable to learn by traditional teaching methods MAY have what is called a "learning disability."

Possible characteristics include:

• Below grade level achievement in one or more subjects
  
• Slow language development
  
• Short attention span
  
• Poor memory
  
• Hyperactivity
  
• Poor impulse control
  
• Aggressiveness, immaturity, disorganization

Persons with learning disabilities are said to have a "hidden handicap" because they appear deceptively "normal." They look the same as everyone else, but they do not learn in the same manner.

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