{"id":8323,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/learning_disability\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:28","slug":"learning_disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/learning_disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes treated as being synonymous with as mental retardation, and thus defined as an intellectual impairment (IQ&lt;70) leading to functional disability. &nbsp;More generally, it is an individual&#8217;s inability to either interpret what is perceived, or to integrate information across modalities. &nbsp;Such limitations can be expressed in various ways (e.g., as specific difficulties with spoken and\/or written language, movement coordination, self-control or deficits in attention).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attention\">Attention<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_delay\">Developmental delay<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_disorders\">Developmental disorders<\/a>, <a href=\"disorder\">Disorder<\/a>, <a href=\"disability\">Disability<\/a>, <a href=\"-g-\">&#8216;g&#8217;<\/a>, <a href=\"intelligence\">Intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"mental_retardation\">Mental retardation<\/a>, Movement coordination<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes treated as being synonymous with as mental retardation, and thus defined as an intellectual impairment (IQ&lt;70) leading to functional disability. &nbsp;More generally, it is an individual&#8217;s inability to either interpret what is perceived, or to integrate information across modalities. &nbsp;Such limitations can be expressed in various ways (e.g., as specific difficulties with spoken and\/or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/learning_disability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning disability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}