About Learning Disabilities
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Learning Disability Association of Wake County
Po Box 68084
Raleigh, NC 27613
919 616-8766
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Specific Learning Disability is an inclusive term used to denote various processing disorders presumed to be intrinsic to an individual (e.g., acquisition, organization, retrieval, or expressions of information). For the purpose of special education services , students classified as learning disabled are those who, after receiving instructional intervention in the regular education setting , have a substantial discrepancy between ability and achievement. The disability is manifested by substantial difficulties in the acquisition and use of skills in listening comprehension, oral expression, written expression, basic reading, reading comprehension, mathematics calculation, and mathematics reasoning. A learning disability may occur concomitantly with, but it is not the primary result of other disabilities and/or environmental, cultural, and/or economic influences.