Understanding Learning Disabilities

Important Terms for Parents Who Have Children with Learning Disabilities

Navigating the public school system when your child has a learning disability can be intimidating. There are a lot of new terms, acronyms and descriptions that have evolved recently. Here's a list that will help you understand some of the terms educators and professionals may use when discussing a child with a learning disability.

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IDEA    top
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Nonverbal Learning Disability (Disorder?)    top
A neurophysiological disorder originating in the right hemisphere of the brain resulting in an impairment in varying degrees of the nonverbal or performance based information of visual-spatial, intuitive, organization, evaluative, and holistic processing functions.

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