Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterized special education enrollment figures for Kansas. The state’s decrease from 56,328 students in 2005 to 55,834 students in 2008 was ...

Last week, the B.C. Ministry of Education released the results of the 2007 Foundation Skills Assessment, a provincewide test aimed at measuring the reading, writing, and math skills of students in ...

Jenny Whinnett said her son Craig could have lived longer and with less pain if he had been treated differently Children with a learning disability in Scotland are more likely to die prematurely - ...

Mind the Gap has become a world leader in creating work with, and not just for, learning-disabled actors and theatremakers. Lyn Gardner finds out how diversity can benefit collaborators beyond just ...

In the classroom, it starts simply — sometimes with a struggle to sound out simple words; sometimes with trouble telling time, memorizing the times tables or learning left from right. It often ends ...

The high number of racial minorities placed in special education for learning disabilities is largely because of social injustices separate from schools, not racially biased educators, according to a ...

In many ways, Katie Apostolides, an education major at Becker College in Worcester, Mass., is a typical undergraduate. As a freshman, she found it hard to leave her family behind in Pennsylvania and ...

Efforts to mainstream learning disabled children may require educators to consider social adjustment variables as much as academic factors in remedial programing. As in their previous work, Bryan and ...

Back in February 2019, when I was an eighth grader, I and hundreds of other nervous students toured my future Chicago high school. My tour had one major difference though. Since I use an electric ...

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A critically acclaimed Hollywood movie opening in UK cinemas this week is shining a much-needed spotlight on how learning disability is represented in film. The Peanut Butter Falcon stars Zack ...

May 12 -- How does a boy, once a member of gifted programs, descend through a series of disciplinary actions and suspensions, ultimately to be barred from school entirely by the age of 14? His parents ...