Coping with Learning Disabilities
Stephen Odom
College 100
American Military University
Maureen Augustin

Coping with Learning Disabilities Many people around the world suffer from some type of Learning Disability (LD).
Learning disabilities affect the way people receive, process, analyze, and store information. Many types of learning disabilities have been identified over the years. They can affect many different facets of a person's life, such as concentration, focus, reading, math, or writing. Many people that are diagnosed with a learning disability have more than one. LD has always been difficult to define as a disorder, but is typically seen as “unexpected” underachievement (Swanson, Harris, and Graham 2003). There are many tools and techniques that have been developed to help these people cope with their disability. Many disabilities are diagnosed early in life when a child is noticed to have difficulty communicating effectively, speaking, reading, writing, solving a math problem, or any other task that should be performed at their appropriate age level. There are many different types of learning disabilities that have been identified. Some of the more common ones are dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia. Although they are not classified as learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism also present learning difficulties. Dyslexia is the most common, and most well known, learning disability. According to Montgomery (2007), “The term “dyslexia” is used as a shortened version of “specific developmental dyslexia” for individuals who have an unexpected difficulty in learning symbol codes at a level in accord with their intellectual ability (p.65). This means that dyslexia is a disorder that makes it difficult to read, write, spell, and sometimes speak. Usually the term learning disability is usually used in