Student Disability Services (SDS) at the University of Texas at San Antonio promotes equal access for all university programs and activities for students with disabilities. We value respect, ...

The specific details of interventions for learning disabilities differ based on the type of disability and its severity but can include specialized, intensive teaching methods and the use of audio ...

Individual “learning styles,” “learning difficulties,” and “learning differences” in and of themselves do not constitute a disability. For ADHD, the documentation report should include a specific ...

Dyslexia qualifies as a specific learning disability. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support: A series of gradually escalating responses to students struggling in class.

Children with “specific learning disabilities” make up the largest portion, about 40 percent, of 6.6 million students who receive services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities ...

Documentation should clearly state the current, specific medical or psychological diagnosis that underlies the disability. General descriptions such as "depressed" or "anxious" are not acceptable. The ...

First, the federal government’s definition of specific learning disabilities explicitly excludes learning problems that result from economic disadvantage: “The term does not include children ...

Disclosing and requesting accommodations based on a disability is a personal decision. Boston College does not require a student to disclose the existence of a disability, but students who wish to ...

When initiated early and tailored to a child’s specific needs, learning disability treatment can be quite effective at helping a child cope with their disability, though its exact efficacy may ...

The ideas and products that came out of the symposium were summarized in a white paper released recently by Stanford. The ...