Learning Disabilities

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Abstract

The approach to learning disabilities in this paper emphasizes the potential for learning of any organism under extraordinary environ-mental conditions—regardless of the inner status of the organism. Subjects diagnosed as learning disabled are so designated on the basis of their performances under ordinary environ-mental conditions. However, nothing precludes their functioning more normally under ap-propriately exceptional conditions. A dis-tioction is drawn between contingencies in the organism enabling him to perform and causes in the environment producing his performance. Implications for improving the performance of all learning disabled subjects are discussed.