Dear Kori: My child recently was diagnosed with a learning disability. He is in the fifth grade. Can you cure a learning disability? What kind of future should I expect my child to have? -- New to ...

People with learning disabilities are dying young from preventable causes due to disjointed access to health checks, a think tank has warned. The Nuffield Trust described the situation as “appalling” ...

Up to 10 percent of children -- two or three kids in every classroom -- are thought to have learning disabilities, and a new review finds these disabilities have complex causes and suggests possible ...

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect one's ability in the domains of spoken or written language, mathematical calculation, attention, or the coordination of movement. They can occur in ...

Nonverbal learning disorder affects a person’s understanding of nonverbal information, such as concepts and patterns. It can result in academic, social, and spatial challenges. Intelligence is both ...

Lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, reverses common learning disabilities in mice, offering the first hope for a treatment of the problem in humans, UCLA researchers reported Monday.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and collaborators at the University of Bristol, KU Leuven, and the NIHR BioResource, have identified a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused ...

Many children are misdiagnosed with autism when the real cause is something completely different — and genetic. Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of learning disabilities, yet most ...

An anonymous donor has given a $10 million grant to a Houston-Austin consortium focused on learning disabilities in children. The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities, based at the University of ...

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect one's ability in the domains of spoken or written language, mathematical calculation, attention, or the coordination of movement. They can occur in ...