Learning Disabilities: How to Diagnose & Treat LDs

What Is Dysgraphia?

Dysgraphia is a brain-based learning disability that affects writing. As with all learning disorders,...

Could your child’s struggles with handwriting and fine motor skills be symptoms of dysgraphia? Take...

Could your lifelong difficulties with handwriting and fine motor skills be symptoms of the writing...

Dyspraxia is a motor skills disorder with symptoms that can be recognized in children as young as 1...

Could your child’s clumsiness or physical awkwardness at home and school be a sign of the motor...

How to detect, approach, and help your child's reading problem — and determine if it's something...

$A boy practices math problems on a whiteboard to improve math skills$

"My son is gifted and has learning disabilities," one reader tells us. "He has an IEP to help him...

In ADDitude’s ADHD Experts Podcast episode 67, Nancie Payne, Ph.D., explains how to tell, and the...

Learning disorders are missed or inaccurately diagnosed because of pandemic-related educational...

…And, as a small child, I heard that loud and clear. I carried it with me for a long, long time. Even...

Q: "I think my child has slow processing speed or ADHD. Whom should I see to have him evaluated, and...

Teachers are the first line of defense in recognizing and helping preschool students manage learning...

Learning disabilities come in many disguises, last a lifetime, and can't be "cured." The key to...

Learning disabilities are not linked to low intelligence or to autism. They aren't caused by parental...

It may not be ADHD that makes reading, writing, or math difficult — a learning disability can be a...