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On the Web
- Learning Disabilities Association of America - National organization of parents, professionals and individuals with learning disabilities. Promoting advocacy, education, and research into the causes of learning disabilities to improve the quality of life. Includes list of state chapters, membership details, calendar of events, and other resources.
- Edbydesign.com: Learning Disabilities - Includes definition of Learning Disabilities, as well as links to pages about specific learning problems.
- Learning Disabilities Online - A selection of articles on learning disabilities including symptoms, possible causes, and alternative ways to prevent learning disorders.
- New Mexico Learning Disabilities Association - The Learning Disabilities Association of New Mexico (NM-LDA) is a nonprofit volunteer organization affiliated with the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDAA). LDAA gives support and information to persons with learning disabilities, parents, teachers, and other professionals through 50 state affiliates and 800 local units. NM-LDA is headquartered in Albuquerque.
- Learning Disabilities Association of Alabama - Dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families, to alleviating the restricting effects of learning disabilities, and to supporting endeavors to determine the causes of learning disabilities.
- Learning Disabilities Association of Mississippi - An informational support center for parents, adults with learning disabilities, and professionals. Provides tips, explanation of support specialists, state contacts, and resources.
- Learning Disabilities Association of Cuyahoga County - Supports children and adults with specific learning disabilities in the Cleveland, Ohio, area.
- Learning Disabilities Association of New York City (LDA of NYC) - Twofold mission: facilitating access to needed services for all New Yorkers with learning disabilities, especially those in the more disadvantaged communities; and providing support to those individuals and their families through a helpline, Latino outreach, and adult support groups.
- Learning Disabilities Association of Michigan - Mission is to enhance the quality of life for individuals with learning disabilities and their families through advocacy, education, training, service and support of research.
- Childhood Learning Disabilities - Offers details about the types of childhood learning disabilities, causes, diagnostics, treatment, and coping methods for families.
Wikipedia Articles
- Learning Disability Practice - Learning Disability Practice is a monthly journal which publishes original research and clinical articles relevant to the practice of Learning Disability nursing.
- Medical model of disability - The medical model of disability is a model by which illness or disability is the result of a physical condition, is intrinsic to the individual (it is part of that individual’s own body), may reduce the individual's quality of life, and causes clear disadvantages to the individual. As a result, curing or managing illness or disability revolves around ...
- England Learning Disabilities team - The England Learning Disabilities (LD) team is one of the six disability squads supported by the Football Association.
- Samuel Orton - Samuel Torrey Orton (October 15, 1879–November 17, 1948) was an American physician who pioneered the study of learning learning disabilities. He is best known for his work examining the causes and treatment of reading disability, or dyslexia.
- Hayden Hendrix - Hayden Hendrix is an American evangelist who grew up in Southwest Little Rock, Arkansas and continues to live in Arkansas with his family. As a child, Hendrix overcame a learning disability and speech impediment to earn a college and master's degrees.