The National Center for Learning Disabilities, a US advocacy group, released a report entitled “The State of Learning Disabilities” today. The report presents broad-strokes data about Learning Disabilities (LD) across the life span, including (for example) data about not only school environments, but also work situations.
Highlights from the report include:
- The identification rate of school-age students with LD has consistently declined for the past 10 years
- Learning disabilities disproportionately affect people living in poverty
- People of all races are identified with LD at about the same rate (except people of Asian descent), and,
- The cost of educating a student with LD is 1.6 times higher than a regular education student (compared with 1.9 for all students with disabilities).
Link to the report.