Learning Disabilities

DOI: 10.7748/en.18.3.11.s16Semantic Scholar

23 Citations•2010•

Guide to Learning Disabilities for Primary Care

Throughout this article, the different yet converging understandings of LD in Australia and the United States are tracked, with suggestions made for future research that avoid the problems of operationalizing the definition of LD proposed by Keogh in 1982.

Abstract

However, in UK education services, the term ‘learning difficulty’ also includes people who have ‘specific learning difficulties’ (e.g., dyslexia), but who do not have a significant general impairment in intelligence. However, the Special Educational Needs (SEN) codes of ‘moderate learning difficulty’, ‘severe learning difficulty’ and ‘profound multiple learning difficulty’ all refer to generalised learning difficulty of

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