What Now? Autism and Learning Difficulties, by Alicia Cook, offers an unvarnished account of life caring for adult children ...

Do you have an employee with a learning difficulty that you at first weren’t aware of? Or perhaps that employee didn’t even realise they had learning difficulties until they found themselves ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) consider specific learning difficulties to be neurodevelopmental. This means that they are present from birth, but often only manifest ...

This week is Learning Disability Week. It takes place in the third week of June every year and in 2024, it's running from the 17-23 June. The event, organised by the charity Mencap, and is an ...

An “invisible” learning or language difficulty could be what is holding your child back. As schools and states aim to measure and increase student proficiency in foundational skills like reading, ...

Low academic grades do not always mean that your child has learning difficulties. Children with lower intellectual abilities or emotional stability may have low academic grades. Some children may even ...

A special school which supports children with moderate learning difficulties (MLD) and autism is set to switch its focus ...

An autistic man who has been supported to find work said he would struggle to cope without Universal Credit (UC) welfare payments. George Burt, 32, from Essex, is worried he will be affected by ...

A shake-up of special educational needs (SEN) provision in a borough's schools has been agreed by councillors. The plans on ...