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:

    “We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.”
    —Jane Addams (1860–1935)