When someone says "learning disability" what does that mean to you?

I am not an expert - There are different types of learning disabilities. There are those who cannot learnm at any pace, no matter how hard you try. there are those who are very slow to learn but will retain. There are those who are slow to learn but will not retain. My niece is the last one. She is a beautiful young woman - 25 - but just can't retain things. She had special tutors and she could grasp concepts and do them withina few minutes, but the next day she couldn't remember how to do them even with prompting.

It says to me that the person with the learning disability can still learn, although differently to others of their age, and perhaps they will not learn as fast. It DOES NOT mean they cannot learn, or that they cannot have any quality of life, because that is simply untrue. Off the top of my head I cannot think of any names in particular, but throughout history there have been people who are considered to be "slow" or "handicapped" (although different words were used in the past) who have in fact made a great success of their life. They have a talent for a particular thing, and they reach the pinnacle of their chosen career, and they are proof that things can be achieved. Of course it might mean that Abby needs some additional help with tutoring, speech therapists or whatever, but she can have a quality of life. I know that you spend a lot of time supporting and encouraging her, and you are to be commended for it. You also have faith that things will turn out alright in the end, and that is good because someone with a negative attitude could affect her development. I am confident that Abby will make it through these difficult years, and while she might not do it at the same speed at others, she will do it well eventually. Abby will shine in her own way, just as all children do, if they receive the love, support and encouragement from those around them. Abby can learn, Abby will learn and Abby will have a good life filled with love laughter and happiness I am certain.

The first time I ever applied to work with special needs students, (did not get the job) the teacher stressed that she taught her LD students that the label LD means Learns Differently. She wanted me to understand that although the students learn differently, they DO learn. I think children with that label have to be given strategies to maximize their capabilities.

Some people can overcome their learning disabilities. A lot of it is harder work. Some of it is having the one certain person that can get things through to them. I am proof of that.

It is a disability that will be with you the rest of your life. There may be treatments but they are not "Cures". There may or may not be ways to "work around" the problem. Work harder, of course, if you want to succeed. A lot of people don't really believe in "learning disabilities" because most of them don't change a person's appearance. They can't "see a difference"; the person "looks normal". Learning disabilities are just as real as a person who has lost a limb or is restricted to a wheelchair. The problem is inside the brain where it doesn't "show"; but, it still exists and depending on the severity can make a person's life a "living hell".

i have a cusion with learning disabilitys and she went through school for nursing and passed just fine she just had to really work at it, and she is still this way she just had to work hard in school it took her a little more to get it thats all. so i guess i feel you just need to work harder and work a little more.

well both of my sons are learning disabled. My youngest son is dyslexic and is 14 and has a second grade reading level. He also has a hard time writing because of being so severelly dyslexic. My eldest son also can not write very he went thru many years of occupational therpy to have him write correctly and nothing worked, so most everyting he does has to be tpyed or scripted for him. He also has a problem with translating from his thoughts and putting them down on paper. He can read, and does retain the information to an extent. So those are some of my thoughts on being learning disabled.

A disability doesn't mean one cannot learn. It just means that they are either limited, or will just have to work at it harder, than everyone else.

Learning dificulty means to me that they have problems maybe reading and writing or understanding awritten language and also can mean there brain will not remember what they might have learned from one day to the next.

Learning disability to me means that the person does not learn in the same process as the mass population. If someone is dyslexic...the person is completely capable of learning...the person just has to learn it in a different way than most people. A child that is ADD...still learns the material...but just may need more time and different ways to keep the person on task. Then there are other learning disabilities. My sister has a learning disability and even though she will never learn to the point of going to college...she is still able to learn the simple things in life and can function with little help in her own life. She is even married to a teacher that understands her learning disabilities.

My daughter, who is 7, is disabled. She has seizures, Adhd, and a sensitivity disorder. She is mentally behind two years because of swallowing fluid from the sack when born. It does get better with time. We have therapists working with her on her speech, reading, physical therapy and more.It really depends on the disability on what you can do to help your child. Working harder if there is a disability, isn't going to help much. My child works hard but they have to retrain her brain in order to use her motor skills. It just really depends on the disorder.

it means that they will have to work harder at first to overcome it- but in time things will get easier to understand and doing things differently will be like second nature. My nephew has a learning disability and says he still has some issues but things are easier to understand now. He's in college.

Yes i think that a learning disability is a sort of disability to a certain extent. And it may be something that can change overtime. I do not think that you have to work harder when someone has a learning disability, to me it just means that they will be a little bit slower than other kids in learning. You still treat them the same and everything like that. Just try not to push them too hard to get things right, or yell at them if they take too long. My son has downs syndrome wich means he is a little bit slower than the children without it. He is aproximately 4 months behind the other kids with walking and crawling and sitting up. Though he is getting there slowly, and in his own time and at a pace he feels comfortable with. I am not treating him any different than i would if i had a child without downs syndrome. You can only sit back and let the children learn on their own. When they are his age. But when he starts school ill be there for help if he needs it. That is all you can do is help them along. And not push them too hard.....

To me it's more about working harder or finding other ways to help them understand - not necessarily that there just isn't any hope.

I guess that to me it means something that I take for granted, another person will find more difficult to master or even to understand. We do tend to lump those people into 2 categories, though...either dislexic or learning impaired. So...we are behind the times and that is wrong. A learning disability could also be someone recovering from a stroke or something.

To me-- it means that the person learns at a slower pace.. They still learn but a bit slower. Also they have to work alot harder than people without learning disabilities. My great friends son has a learning disability- I love seeing him- He is so genuine-- he works so hard to learn some simple things- but let me tell you when he masters them we are all so proud! So to me it just means learning at a slower pace.