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:
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)