learning disability
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- noun
- /ˈlɜrnɪŋ dɪsəˈbɪləti/
- Specialized
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trastorno del aprendizaje
- Now Isaiah, who is a young man with learning disability, with developmental issues, is having to relive this publicly.
- people with learning disabilities
- children with learning disabilities
- students with learning disabilities
By its very nature, diagnosing a learning disability requires clinical judgement.
- By its very nature, diagnosing a learning disability requires clinical judgement.
- So teaching for so many years, I had plenty of students with learning disabilities.
- They said, hey, would you like us to test your son because we think he's got some learning disabilities?
- You know, barring some major, you know, learning disabilities, most people can learn calculus and, and do well given enough hard work.
- There were no, I normalized as much as I could for students that had learning disabilities.
- The outlier, somebody with a learning disability, ADHD, you know, autism, etcetera, etcetera.
- Severe, and this is complicated with learning disabilities, it it creates information deficits.
- Once in wheelchairs, autistic children, learning disabilities, they all have something to do to make that Christmas play happen.
- You guys growing up had a learning disability.
Examples
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Teachers are trained to identify students who may have a learning disability and help them succeed.
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Improving the quality of life for people with learning disabilities involves more than just providing care services.
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Is it possible you got a learning disability or something?
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- He has a learning disability.
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What might more research of this nature bring to the field of learning disabilities?
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I'm concerned Lewis has a learning disability.
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Teddy has a learning disability, so we really wanted to use that as part of his arc and part of his story.
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Colleen and I will have an updated curriculum for the students with learning disabilities by next week.
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"People with a whole range of learning disabilities can be very independent in environments they're familiar with.
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Hoolahan is mindful of the impact a change of provider can have on people with learning disabilities.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A difficulty that makes it hard for children with normal intelligence to read, write, or do math
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A condition that makes it harder for a person to understand or do things like others their age
Antonyms
How Impaired
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a straightforward composition: 'learning' (acquiring knowledge) + 'disability' (a condition that limits ability) yields a condition that impairs learning. This relation is transparent and common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun learning disability puts together learning (skills like reading, writing or maths) and disability (a word for a lasting difficulty doing something). It was made to name a condition where a person with normal intelligence has trouble with some school skills, so the phrase shows the problem is about how someone 'learns', not their 'intelligence'.