All children and adults will struggle from time to time in school or when learning new things. However, some people's brains process things differently, resulting in problems learning. This is not an intelligence issue, but a problem with brain...
Learning disorders are neurological disorders resulting from the way the brain is wired. These disorders have nothing to do with the level of intelligence a person has, but with how the information is processed or communicated. About 15 percent of...
When a child has a learning disorder, she can have a problem with language, mathematics, memory or behavior. The Merck Manual Professional Edition notes that in the United States, about 5 percent of children in school attend special education...
The National Institute of Health (NIH) indicates that nearly 15 percent of the American population has some form of learning disorder. Learning disabilities are considered neurological disorders and do not measure a person's intelligence, rather,...
Learning disorders are neurological problems that prevent your child's brain from understanding and processing information. Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, states that learning disorders can affect your child's...
A learning disorder, as defined by Math and Reading Help, is a neurological disorder that affects one ore more psychological processes involved in processing or using language. In general, learning disorders cause a discrepancy between the...
Content Introduction About Communications and Learning Disorders Parental Suggestions to Give to Teachers Introduction Teachers in typical...
Learning disabilities or learning disorders often appear in childhood but can remain undiagnosed into adulthood. A learning disability is not a reflection of a person's intelligence, but instead affects the way a person sees, hears and understands...
When your child is learning to read and write, he may reverse letters that look alike, such as "d" and "b," and it may go away the more he practices. Letter reversal can also be a symptom of a language-based learning disability called dyslexia,...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, affects how a person pays attention, engages with others and expresses his energy levels. At times, ADHD is the participating cause of a leaning disorder. Learning disorders afflict 5 percent of...
Parents who suspect their child has dyslexia, a neurological disorder that affects reading ability, should seek a professional evaluation. Some schools require a diagnosis before a child can receive added or modified education services. Dyslexia...
The Merck Online Medical Library defines a learning disorder as a condition that prevents a person from being able to "acquire, retain, or broadly use specific skills and information" due to deficiencies in certain areas that affect academic...
Children who have learning difficulties are not lacking in intelligence, but instead have not be instructed in ways that do not match the way they learn. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a very common reason...
Learning disabilities are a fairly common occurrence with about 10 percent of the population dealing with difficulty in a learning context, according to the Child Development Institute. The term "learning disorder," as explained by the National...
ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is a term used to describe a disorder with symptoms of inattentiveness, hyperactivity or both. The Dore method is a program for tackling a broad spectrum of learning difficulties and ADHD through...
Controversy has long surrounded the question of food additives' effects on behavior, particularly the relationship, if any, between additives and hyperactivity in children. The jury is still out on this hotly debated topic with a number of studies...
According to Donald J. Getz, O.D., up to 75 to 80 percent of what a child learns comes through the visual sense. Children with learning disabilities, autism and cerebral palsy often have underlying eye tracking and visual perceptual problems....
Children truly might be a reflection of what they eat because their behavior, both positive and negative, is linked to their dietary choices. The Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation states that even in 1922 a link between certain foods and...
Like adults, children can suffer from a variety of mental disorders. They may have anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, learning disorders, conduct disorder, eating disorders, developmental disorders or...
The Centers for Disease Control defines underweight children as those that fall under the 5th percentile in Body Mass Index and growth charts designed for their age group. A child may be underweight because they simply do not consume enough food,...
Gluten intolerance is also known as celiac disease. According to the University of Montana, many people have celiac disease without knowing it, as this disease often goes undiagnosed. If you have celiac disease, your body responds to gluten as if...
The Heath Center, a learning disabilities research center at George Washington University, notes that between 1987 and 2003 the number of students enrolled in college with learning disabilities increased by 20 percent per year at community...
Scientific discussion regarding a possible link between vitamin D deficiency and autism arose out of studies examining the role of vitamin D in the development of rat brains. Discovery of the essential status of adequate vitamin D in normal rat...
A goiter is a swelling of the thyroid gland in your neck. In parts of Africa, Asia and South America, the goiter is often caused by a lack of iodine. However, the use of iodized table salt has reduced iodine deficiency in the United States,...
Developmental reading disorder, also called dyslexia, is one of the most common learning disorders. Out of all students with a learning disorder, 80 percent have dyslexia. The cause of dyslexia is not well understood, however some naturopaths and...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affects between 3 and 7 percent of school-aged children, according to the DSM-IV, and is considered to be one of the most common disorders affecting children. To receive a diagnosis of ADHD, children must...
School-aged children are often presented with a great deal of new information on a daily basis, according to the Center for Learning and Development, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching and learning. In many cases an efficient memory...
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, it is estimated that between the ages of three and 10 there are 3.4 in every 1,000 children who are diagnosed with autism. Statistics also show that many of these same children will develop...
Learning disabilities are often diagnosed in childhood and may include deficits in several areas of functioning. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) outlines three main learning disorders that may be diagnosed in...
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