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learning difficulties

plural noun

  1. difficulty experienced in reaching the average standard of people of the same age group as regards intellectual and cognitive skills and performance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Usage

This is now the standard umbrella term to cover both difficulties created by specific conditions, such as dyslexia, and by less than average intellectual skills
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During my visit I watched as a young child with learning difficulties was gently coached to walk around a therapy room.

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The teaching assistant, who lives with his parents near Truro, Cornwall, is about to start a new job as a support worker for people with learning difficulties.

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It is a post-primary school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties with additional special educational needs, and Dr Atkinson is worried about how some of her leavers will find their future.

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It also urged them to always consider a report in a wider range of circumstances, including where an offender has an addiction, is transgender, or has learning difficulties.

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His father Victor told the inquiry that his son had been "robbed" of his bright and happy future, which was "full of promise despite the learning difficulties that he had".

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