SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY (SLD)

Definition

A child with a specific learning disability is one who has a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.  The term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia.  The term does not include children who have learning problems which are primarily the result of visual, hearing or motor disability, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance or of environmental, cultural or economic disadvantage.