Learning Disorders

A learning disorder is a biologically based, neurodevelopmental condition that impacts a person’s ability to take in, process, and/or communicate information. Such difficulties can result in an individual struggling with learning foundational academic skills. As a result of deficits in key academic skills, difficulties arise in learning more complex subjects and cause the student’s academic achievement to lag far behind what is expected for his age and intellectual ability. Lagging academic achievement that results from visual or auditory problems or poor or inappropriate academic instruction is not indicative of a specific learning disorder.