BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Several studies have been conducted in India to determine the prevalence of learning disabilities in school children which has been reported to be 3-10 per cent among students population. The present study was conducted to find out prevalence of specific developmental disorder of scholastic skills in students of classes VII to XII and to find out feasibility of screening...

The endeavor of this work is to support the special education community in their quest to be with the mainstream. The initial segment of the paper gives an exhaustive study of the different mechanisms of diagnosing learning disability. After diagnosis of learning disability the further classification of learning disability that is dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia are fuzzy. Hence the paper p...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether people with learning disability in the UK have poorer access to cancer screening. DESIGN Four cohort studies comparing people with and without learning disability, within the recommended age ranges for cancer screening in the UK. We used Poisson regression to determine relative incidence rates of cancer screening. SETTING The Health Improvement Network, a UK pri...

Robert Chaplin is a consultant in general adult psychiatry who works with an inner-London community mental health team (Tooting & Furzedown CMHT, Springfield Hospital, 61 Glenburnie Road, London SW17 OJB; tel/fax: 0181 682 6439) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s Hospital Medical School. He has received training in learning disability at Registrar and Senior Registrar levels including ...

BACKGROUND In 2001, a white paper set out a commitment to ensure that people with a learning disability receive equal access to health services, with an expectation that general practices would have identified all people with a learning disability registered with the practice by June 2004. AIM To outline the development of a template to create practice-based registers of people with learning ...

OBJECTIVE Our goal was to examine the lifetime prevalence of learning disability by sociodemographic and family-functioning characteristics in US children, with particular attention paid to the children with special health care needs. METHODS By using data from the National Survey of Children's Health, we calculated lifetime prevalence of learning disability using a question that asked whethe...