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learning disability
[ lur-ning dis-uh-bil-i-tee ]
noun
- Also called specific learning disability. a disorder, such as dyslexia, characterized by difficulty in one specific cognitive area, including understanding or using spoken or written language, understanding or using numbers and mathematical concepts, coordinating movements, or directing attention.
- Chiefly British. intellectual disability ( def ).
learning disability
- Any of various disabilities of the basic cognitive and psychological processes involved in using language or performing mathematical calculations. Learning disabilities are not caused by low intelligence, emotional disturbance, or physical impairment (as of hearing). Dyslexia is a common learning disability.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of learning disability1
Example Sentences
The report also examined deaths in other forms of "state custody" such as mental health facilities, detention centres for migrants and asylum accommodation, and among people with learning disabilities and autism.
About half a million people in the UK currently live in supported housing, including young care leavers, army veterans, people with learning disabilities and those escaping homelessness or domestic abuse.
In Newton Abbott in Devon, a cafe that employed people with learning disabilities shut last month.
Those with the syndrome will have some level of learning disability, the NHS website says.
"When you look across the lifetime of an autistic person or a person with learning disabilities, this is the first real gap in provision that there is," she said.
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