Learning Disabilities
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Students with learning disabilities (LD) have difficulty acquiring basic skills or academic content due to difficulty using or understanding spoken or written language.
These difficulties may impact a student’s ability to read, write, spell, think, speak, listen, or do mathematics. Learning disabilities do not include those difficulties that are primarily due to a student’s intellectual, physical, or emotional disabilities, nor those that are due to a student’s environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantages.
Common learning disabilities include dyslexia, dysgraphia, perceptual disabilities, and developmental aphasia. It is estimated that approximately 6-8% of school-age children have some sort of LD. Some experts believe that lack of and differences in screening protocols have resulted in LD being underreported.
Source: ed.gov
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Perkins School for the Blind
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At Perkins School for the Blind, we transform lives by helping children with disabilities find their place in the world. As a global leader in education for children with visual impairments, including deafblindness, CVI, CHARGE, and multiple disabilities, we are proud to offer a continuum of services that addresses every need, ability, and age – infancy through adulthood. Our innovative programs include day and residential options, virtual transition programming, direct services in public schools and much more. Since 1829, we've empowered children and young adults with the education