Specific Learning Disability
The Specific Learning Disability Program serves students who demonstrate a processing deficit that significantly affects academic performance when compared to learning potential, in areas of listening, speaking, reading, writing, or calculating. Services focus on specialized instruction in identified areas of need. Students receive service through a full continuum of programs ranging from consultative, collaborative, resource and self-contained.
Students with learning disabilities may exhibit the following behaviors in a general education setting:
Students with learning disabilities may exhibit the following behaviors in a general education setting:
- functions below grade level in some subjects
- lack of planning and organizational skills
- difficulty identifying the main idea
- poor interpersonal skills
- difficulty expressing ideas