On Disabilities

Components of Linguistics in Learning Disabilities Focusing on Reading Disorder

Background: The most common and significant learning disabilities include reading disorders. Reading is the foundation for all other learning, and children with weak reading skills are more vulnerable learners through their education and future, thereby failed to show significant progress in academic learning outcomes. Conclusion: Reading covers a language learning system and it is a subset of...

Labelling Effects on Stigma Surrounding Disabilities

Researches on Learning Disabilities - Where Are We?

This article focusses on the review of research studies done on the area of learning disabilities and the need to conduct more research studies in this area. School children are seen to have different types of learning difficulties with regard to academics. Children with learning disability, who occupy the largest number receiving special education, are not recognized much in schools. It is mis...

Provision of related services for children with chronic disabilities. Committee on Children with Disabilities.

Since 1975 all children with disabifities specifically delineated by law have had available to them “a free, appropriate public education that includes special education and related services to meet their unique needs.” This access has been made possible by the passage of Public Law 94-142,’ The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. This law was amended in October 1990 with passag...

Learning disabilities.

Approximately 5% of all public school students are identified as having a learning disability (LD). LD is not a single disorder, but includes disabilities in any of seven areas related to reading, language, and mathematics. These separate types of learning disabilities frequently co-occur with one another and with social skill deficits and emotional or behavioral disorders. Most of the availabl...