What is a learning disability?

 

A learning disability is a disorder that can affect the body or and the brain, before, during, and after birth some time through the person’s life.

Causes.

How can this happen? This can sadly happen lots of ways, which I am going to give some examples and then I would like you to give your examples by researching by references such as online and in books etc. Lack of oxygen during birth where the Mother could be neglected, the Mother may be unwell during pregnancy before birth, or the person may have a bad fall during their life, which is after birth.

 

Types of disabilities.

·         Down’s syndrome

·         Williams syndrome

·         Autism and Asperger’s syndrome

·         Challenging Behaviour

·         Fragile X syndrome

·         Global development delay

·         Cerebral palsy

 

The task to work on by researching yourself.

1.  What other types of disabilities are there?

2.  Find out at least of the cause of the disabilities I have listed and your examples too.

3.  Name at least one each that starts before birth, during, and after. There is neither one nor the other etc that does not etc not a problem, just find out what you can.

4. Which affects the brain, body, or and even both?

Support people's needs.

One way or another disability effect lives such as finding it hard to cook, clean, shop, travel, money, socialize make friends relationships, hold down learning and a job.  This can vary from person to a person where parts of the person’s life may be affected other parts that may not. Try to find out how the disabilities I have written down and the disabilities you have in mind are likely to affect people’s lives and how you can support people who face them.