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LD & RELATED DISORDERS

You may have become aware of your student's learning problem in different ways. Perhaps you suspect your child has a learning deficit or disability, or a processing problem. Perhaps you have been told your child has another kind of learning disorder or psychiatric diagnosis which impacts academic functioning. Perhaps you worry that your child has a "learning difference." Each of these labels or diagnoses is a different way of seeing the wide variety of learning problems children have. Or perhaps no "label" has been applied to your child, but you can see there is a problem. We will try to help you understand how this problem might be understood, as well as assessed and remediated. Learning Problems can appear as: