{"id":4142,"date":"2010-10-28T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2010-10-28T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:41:01","slug":"misunderstandings-about-learning-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/misunderstandings-about-learning-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstandings About Learning Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Misunderstandings%20About%20Learning%20Disabilities\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/ld.poll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;float:left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/ld.poll.sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>A recent poll indicates that a many Americans do not completely understand the conditions related to learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>There appears to be a growing public awareness of LD and an understanding that some kids learn differently. But the poll shows that some people do not have a very clear idea of what dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other learning disabilities are. About 80 percent also linked learning disabilities with intellectual disabilities (referred to as \u201cmental retardation\u201d in the poll); 69 percent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; and 75 percent with autism.<\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, learning disabilities are defined as neurological disorders that may affect one&#8217;s ability to read, spell, write or do math, but are not associated with cognitive ability.<!--more-->&#8220;Children with \u201cspecific learning disabilities\u201d make up the largest portion, about 40 percent, of 6.6 million students who receive services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 poll was commissioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tremainefoundation.org\/Content\/October_2010_Roper_Poll_Results.asp\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation<\/span><\/a>, which makes grants to support children with learning disabilities.\u00a0 The report\u00a0 says that 79% of parents and 80% of non-parents incorrectly associate mental retardation with a learning disorder.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 percent agree that learning disabilities are \u201coften caused by the home environment children are raised in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others chalk learning disabilities up to laziness.\u00a0 Some people also link learning disabilities to other disorders, such as blindness or deafness.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also showed that teachers \u2014 who 31% of parents say they would turn to for information about learning disabilities \u2014 are equally confused. Forty-three percent (43%) of teachers think the home environment is at least partially to blame for children\u2019s learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings show an alarming lack of knowledge by parents and  educators about learning disabilities, said Stewart J. Hudson, President  of the Tremaine Foundation. \u201cThese findings threaten our children\u2019s  futures and undermine efforts to improve educational outcomes for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tremainefoundation.org\/Content\/October_2010_Roper_Poll_Results.asp\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">New Poll Reveals Dangerous Confusion about Children with Learning Disabilities: October 2010 Roper Poll Results<\/span><\/a> &#8211; Tremaine Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2010\/10\/06\/07ld.h30.html?tkn=PNWF3Ov4BqdEEvaEUX1QdvNznAjNWPGPpyeY&amp;cmp=clp-edweek\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Poll: Learning Disabilities Are Often Misunderstood<\/span><\/a>by Christina Samuels<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/yourlife\/parenting-family\/special-needs\/2010-10-06-LearningDisabilities06_ST_N.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ADD, autism aren&#8217;t learning disabilities, but most think they are<\/span><\/a> by Betty Klinck, USA TODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll indicates that a many Americans do not completely understand the conditions related to learning disabilities. There appears to be a growing public awareness of LD and an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/misunderstandings-about-learning-disabilities\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1362],"tags":[167,1308,1302,688],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-learning-disabilities-dyslexia","tag-dyscalculia","tag-dyslexia","tag-learning-disabilities","tag-tremaine-foundation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}