A disorder involving difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, or performing math, where academic skills appear significantly below what would be expected given the person's intellectual capability.
the various ways in which children underachieve or perform badly at school, often caused by dyslexia o other difficulties in dealing with reading, writing or solving mathematical problems.
Pre-school and school-age children are usually described as having a learning difficulty rather than a disability when they have additional support needs that need extra or different approaches to the way they are taught.
Learning difficulties are any difficulties in learning that are significantly greater than those among the majority of children of the same age. The term 'learning difficulty' also covers a disability that hinders a child's use of everyday educational facilities.