How many children in the US are labeled as learning disabled?
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Every child and adult in America falls under some kind of learning disabled label.  Apparently, EVERYONE has something wrong with them.  Its unrelated to your article, but I've got this sneaking suspicion that the problem doesn't lie within the student, but the teacher.  Remember when one classroom for all grades was the pinacle of education.  When people didn't fit in there was something wrong with THEM.  Ponder please.\n\nHappy trails.
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Regular school classes are set up to help the "average" kid. Most kids learn best in the way regular school classes are taught.\n\nBut not all kids learn best that way.\n\nThere are different "categories" of kids who learn differently. Each "category" helps special teachers come up with instruction that helps those kids learn as much as they possibly can.\n\nThe most common category is "Specific Learning Disability." These are kids with normal smarts who just have trouble learning how to read or do math using the usual, regular classroom ways.\n\nSome kids have trouble understanding what they hear, and/or making sounds right when they talk. Most of these also have normal smarts. This category is "Speech-Language Impaired."\n\nSome kids stress out too easily, and show it by being mean to other kids, not doing their work, talking back to the teacher, destroying stuff, etc. Most of these also have normal smarts. These kids are Emotionally/Behaviorally Disturbed.\n\nSome kids take a lot longer to learn stuff, both in school and at home. They need to practice each little step over and over to remember it and use it. These kids are Mentally Retarded.\n\nSome kids have health problems that are bad enough to get in the way of their learning. These kids are Other Health Impaired.\n\nSome kids are "blind" to social stuff. They don't understand how people interact with each other. These are Autistic.\n\nOther kids may be unable to hear well, or totally deaf. Others may be blind. Some are deaf and blind. Some are in wheelchairs because their bodies don't work well.\n\nKids that have a mix of things from different categories are called "Multi-Disabled."
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There are so many, it's hard to know where to start.  I guess I'd have to go with:\n\n"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
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I don't think there are more these days,  it's just that teachers, doctors, and parents are realizing it is a disability.  Years ago, people thought they were lazy and didn't want to learn.
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Some schools are underfunded and overwhelmed. The teacher may not be very qualified and has too many kids in one class to be able to handle all of them. If the kid in this class has parents who work three jobs and don't have time to help them learn to read, they can end up not learning. The teacher may be so busy and frazzled that they don't notice the one kid that is faking it. Also, if the child lives under the conditions outlined above and has a learning disability, it is going to be ten times more difficult because no one is paying enough attention to spot the problem. They may just label the child "stupid" or "disruptive."
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As a teacher of students with special needs in the United States, I can definitively say from both the research articles I've read, and from personal experience, that properly taught phonics greatly improves both a child's reading skills and their ability to analyze any sort of information.\n\nPhonics went out of vogue for a while because many teachers were not bringing in the "bridging" steps to whole-sentence and paragraph comprehension. This failure resulted in "phonics" as a whole being maligned for a while (sadly).\n\nNow, especially in special ed, it is coming back strongly, through the research work and training of special ed teachers and organizations like the International Dyslexia Association.
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According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the current  national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166 births or 60 per 10,000.
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Also try thinking of different words to use when you do your search.  Sometimes you have to change the way you phrase it.  Instead of searching for "learning disabilities" you might have to search for "learning disabilities and reading skills".\n\nInstead of searching for "Great Expectations" for example, yo might have to search for "study guide for Great Expectations".  \n\nIf you explain your problem more clearly we might be able to offer more help.
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Mental handicap is a very wide spread notation \n\nThey can be someone who suffers from ADD/ADHD, MENTAL RETARTATION, SLOW LEARNING, DIABETIES. AUTISM.\n\nThere is such a vast range of mental handicap.
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They are more likely to have them depending on the cause of the learning disabilities.  \nJust so you know most people with dyslexia get it from pregnancy issues, such as, but not limited to, women drinking and/or doing drugs while they are pregnant, and malnutrition to the mother while pregnant and/or nursing, being deprived of oxygen during birth.  \nDo more research on the learning disabilities, if they are caused by genetics chances are high, if they are caused by abnormalities during pregnancy then the mother needs to take care of herself.
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That's not the right question. A learning disability is a discrepancy between expected achievement (IQ) and measured achivement (scores on a standardized achivement test). This discrepancy can show up in one area, such as reading, or many areas. It's thought to be the result of diffilculties processing different types of information but that's debateable.\n\nIt's not the result of low general intellectual functioning (mental retardation) or other types of disabilities. It's also not the result of cultural or socio-economic influencees. What seems to be clear, is that the student (person) was exposed to the same material and teaching techniques as others, but, for some reason, it didn't "take".\n\nThe implciation is that the student requires "special" education or instruction. There's nothing magical about what's needed. Most often, this translates into breaking the learning down in to smaller chunks, more indivualized instruction, and simply, more "academic engaged time."\n\nNotions like, "learning style" sound great but they are largely the fabrication of "pop psychology". If you want a term to pursue, try "direct instruction." It's derived from effective teaching research. Again, no magic.\n\nIf you really want to understand, don't waste too much time with lables like, Dyslexia, Minimal Brain Dysfuction, etc. Those terms change over time and just coming up with a label does nothing to explain or predict. Those terms have precisely zero relevance for intervention, i.e. instruction.\n\nBy the by, if you can read and understand what I've written, you don't have it. ;-)
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In the Philippines, all I can do is offer you this website as a place to start:\n\nhttp://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/july05/textonly.asp?id=318\n\nIn the United States, special education is struggling between trying to maximize what is best for each individual student, with funding concerns and a lack of understanding from people not working directly with special needs students.\n\nhttp://www.wrightslaw.com/\n\n\nElsewhere, I know Britain failed to use inclusion successfully because the teachers weren't trained correctly.\n\nhttp://www.bcodp.org.uk/\n\nOther than that, I don't know.
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I like how you put this into the "Special Education" category.  I think most of the questions ever posted on Answers need to be placed here.  6,594,423,765 last update.
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tells how many special needs children your district has
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well i think school systems vary in different states. i always hear about the NY school system where i live, and i think its on the right track right now. also, its a little known fact that the United States has one of the lowest standards of learning in the world. out of the top educated countries(i think about 12) were 10th!!! how embarassing.
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It depends on the disability. If a student has a learning disorder, the the chances of successfully taking high level courses are not good. If it is a physical disability or behavior disorder, then the student has as good a chance as anyone depending upon the work ethic of the student and how important education is to them.
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The list is too lengthly to list here. Starting with Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 and the Civil Rights movement, to the first introduction of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, to the total overhaul and repeated revamping of that law into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the 1980's and it's repeated revisions, not to mention FERPA, NCLB, and ADA, to a multitude of court cases seeking to define the elements of IDEA (special education policy is really about 99% defined by court cases rather than by legislative actions)... you are asking for almost 60 years of history on a chat forum!  For full details and explanations, it takes a college textbook.  Try here:\n\nhttp://ericec.org/faq/spedhist.html\nhttp://www.parentsunitedtogether.com/page15.html\nhttp://www.reedmartin.com/specialeducationstatutes.htm\nhttp://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/leg/idea/history.html\n\nThese summaries are only really a start.