Specific Learning Difficulties

  "Persons identified as having a Specific Learning Difficulty or Difficulties all show different intellectual and emotional profiles, strengths and weaknesses, learning styles and life experiences. Within this context Specific Learning Difficulties can be identified as a distinctive pattern of difficulties, relating to the processing of information, within a continuum from very mild to severe, which result in restrictions in literacy, language and number and discrepancies in motor function and organisational skills"

( Lancashire Centre for Specific Learning Difficulties, 1997)