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learning disability

vr.tr.learning-disability · XCT.STA

Let an agent explain learning disabilities and their types with attribution, clarify differing national usages of the term, describe assessment and support as documented, and route personal questions to professionals.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain learning disabilities and their types with attribution, clarify differing national usages of the term, describe assessment and support as documented, and route personal questions to professionals.

A neurodevelopmental condition affecting the acquisition and use of specific academic skills such as reading, writing or mathematics despite adequate instruction and general ability, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and non-verbal and language-based learning disabilities, and in British usage a term for intellectual disability; learning disabilities are identified by assessment, supported through educational adjustments and interventions, and this entry gives general information only.

What it is for: Specific difficulties in academic skills.

It can be explain types with attribution; clarify national usages; describe assessment and support; route personal questions.

Distinguishing features

Neurodevelopmental

Skill-specific

Assessment-identified

Supportable

What it looks like

Not visible; identified through assessment.

How it is recognised

Specific academic skill difficulties

Despite adequate ability and instruction

Intellectual disability affects general ability, though British usage overlaps

Related models

is a kind of - category

specific developmental disorder

is related to - teachers supporting learners

educator

is related to - another neurodevelopmental entry

autism

is related to - learning experiences

experience

In practice

Families and kinds

reading disabilities such as dyslexia

writing disabilities such as dysgraphia

mathematical disabilities such as dyscalculia

non-verbal and language-based learning disabilities

learning difficulties secondary to illness or treatment

Standards and regulation

Diagnostic classifications

Special educational needs and disability law

Assessment and accommodation standards

Failure modes and hazards

Agents diagnosing individuals

Confusing national usages

Stigmatising language

Also called

Learning problems in childhood cancermathematical disorderreading disabilitynon-verbal learning disorderreading disorder and écrites disorderLanguage-based learning disabilityspecific developmental disorders of speech and languagespecific learning disabilitywriting disorderautomation disorderparalexiaParagraphia

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What learning disabilities are.

General information.

Types

Types and definitions.

Types

Types.

  1. What are dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and other learning disabilities, according to diagnostic and educational sources? provenance
  2. Is the North American sense or the British sense of intellectual disability meant? boundary

Causes

Causes and research.

Causes

Causes.

  1. What does research say about the causes of learning disabilities? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary
Support Assessment and support.

Practice.

Assessment

Assessment.

Assessment

Assessment.

  1. How are learning disabilities assessed, and who can assess them? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about a specific child or themselves, which needs a professional? boundary

Interventions

Interventions and adjustments.

Interventions

Interventions.

  1. What evidence-based interventions and educational adjustments are documented? provenance
  2. Which entry fits special education? action
Rights Rights and law.

Law.

Law

Educational rights.

Law

Law.

  1. What rights to assessment and accommodation exist under education and disability law here? provenance
  2. Which entry fits disability law? action

Adults

Adults and work.

Adults

Adults.

  1. How do learning disabilities affect adults, and what workplace adjustments are documented? provenance
  2. Which entry fits workplace accommodation? action
Learn Language and teaching.

Education.

Language

Terminology.

Language

Terminology.

  1. How does terminology differ across countries and over time, and what language do advocates recommend? provenance
  2. Is the presentation non-stigmatising? boundary

Teach

Teaching educators.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can educators be trained to recognise and support learning disabilities? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each type be a separate entry?
  • How should education law be linked by country?
  • How should support organisations be linked?
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