Learning Difficulties

Learning difficulties may refer to:

  • The conditions known in North America as learning disabilities, which are called "specific learning difficulties" in the United Kingdom
  • The condition referred to by the World Health Organization as mental retardation, which is sometimes called "learning disability" in the United Kingdom

For more information, see the section on History of the terminology (United Kingdom).

Famous quotes containing the words learning and/or difficulties:

    “To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter’s art.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)