Many years ago, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968) performed a fascinating experiment in elementary school classrooms. They led teachers to believe that a special test had revealed that ...

Intellectual disabilities affect a child’s ability to learn and function at levels considered typical for their age. Learning disabilities affect a child’s ability to master specific skills, like ...

Learning disorders are common, yet most teachers and parents are unaware of their impact on one’s life, work and academic journey. In the old days of caning and corporal punishments in our schools, ...

A specific learning disability, also known as a specific learning disorder, is a neurological condition that affects an individual’s ability to learn and process information in a specific area, like ...

Roughly 1 in 5 children in the United States are estimated to be neurodivergent, with a range of learning and thinking differences. Those differences have nothing to do with intelligence—but derive ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated Devin Kearn’s university affiliation. A recent change to the definition of dyslexia put forth by an international group of researchers and ...

Not all children learn at the same speed or through the same ways, but persistent challenges with reading, writing, and mathematics may warrant testing for a learning disability. Learning disabilities ...