October is Learning Disabilities Awareness Month 🔹Learning disability: ▫️A neurological condition that impedes the individual's ability to store and/or process information. ▫️Can affect the individual's social skills and ability to read, write, speak, and compute math. ▫️Can always creates a disparity between the individual's measured IQ and performance IQ. For example, the individual may have a measured IQ of 125 but as a result of dyslexia, has reading skills that are below average. 🔹Learning deficits and learning needs: ▫️Individuals lacking educational opportunities or who have had other issues that have interfered with learning are often mislabeled as having learning disabilities because the effects on the individual's performance may be similar. However, an individual who has very little education or has never learned to read has a learning deficit, not a learning disability. 🔹Acquired impairments: ▫️Acquired impairments, resulting from head injury trauma or other types of injury may also affect the individual's ability to process information. As a result, an acquired impairment may be mislabeled as a learning disability. For example, following a motorcycle accident that resulted in a head injury, the person has poor memory. The poor memory is a result of the accident (an acquired impairment) not a learning disability in and of itself. 🔹Distinguishing Characteristics: People can overcome a learning deficit through remediation, such as additional schooling. Learning disabilities are not reversible and are a life-long issue but individuals with learning disabilities may develop accommodation skills and strategies that aid in lessening the effects of the learning disability. A true learning disability rarely prevents an individual from becoming employed or self-sufficient. Specific strategies or accommodations may be needed in order for the individual to be successfully employed. Learn more at: https://www.dshs.wa.gov/esa/social-services-manual/learning-disabilities-and-deficits #learning #learningdisability #disabled #disabilities #invisibledisabilities #neurological #neurodivergent #neuro #neurodiversity #diversity #diversityandinclusion https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfpGhiLF8j/?utm_medium=tumblr
