If you're autistic, you're more likely to have a learning disability than the general public. In fact, around 30% of autistic people also have a learning disability. But being autistic doesn't mean ...

Helena Donato-Sapp is a 14-year-old activist with a searing message for educators: Do more to be a champion for students with disabilities. Helena has four learning disabilities—a visual processing ...

According to the Learning Disabilities Association of America, 2.4 million students are diagnosed with a learning disability and about 41 percent receive special education services. There is a range ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

The first time Tammy Carrillo enrolled at East Los Angeles College (ELAC), she didn’t know she had a learning disability. She also hadn’t thought of herself as college material. At her continuation ...

In a crowded elementary school auditorium in October, two students approached the microphone to introduce the day’s guest speaker: an author who had come to read her book to the assembled students.

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO – When Jessica Anacker was in junior high, a teacher pulled her out of English class one day after she was bullied by a ...