Learning Disabilities

Council for Learning Disabilities
The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) is an international organization concerned about issues related to students with learning disabilities.

Learning Disabilities Association of America
LDA strives to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults with learning disabilities.

National Center for Learning Disabilities
This site is a gateway to learning disability information and resources on the web.

Assistive Technology-Meeting the Needs of Adults with Learning Disabilities
Adrienne Riviere
This article includes a sampling of tools and technologies that have been designed or adapted to help improve functional capabilities.

Adults with Learning Disabilities
Sandra Kerka
This digest looks at current definitions of learning disabilities, the experiences of adults with LD, factors influencing their successful adjustment to adult life, and strategies for adult educators and counselors.

ESL Instruction and Adults with Learning Disabilities
Robin Schwarz & Lynda Terrill
This digest reviews what is known about adult ESL learners and learning disabilities, suggests ways to identify and assess ESL adults who may have learning disabilities, and offers practical methods for both instruction and teacher training.

A Guide to Learning Disabilities for the ESL Classroom Practitioner
Christine Root
This article is a basic primer on learning disabilities. It describes classroom behaviors associated with several common learning problems, the results of research into them and offers practical suggestions to classroom teachers for working more profitably with these students.

It's About More than Learning: How Learning Disabilities Affect Social Skills and Relationships
LD InfoZone
This article discusses the difficulties with social interactions faced by many individuals with learning disabilities.

Real world LD: Adults Speak Out About Living and Working with LD
LD InfoZone
In this article, LD News spoke with adults with diagnosed learning disabilities about the effects of those disabilities on their lives at home and at work.

Tips for Self-Advocacy in the Workplace
Dale S. Brown
This article outlines and describes steps that adults with learning disabilities can take to become self-advocates and to request accommodations or services in the workplace.

Adults with Learning Disabilities-Definitions and Issues
This fact sheet provides: a definition of learning disabilities in adults; a list of common elements found in many useful LD definitions; and a list of areas in which LD may affect life situations of adults.

Florida's Focus on Learning Disabilities: Bridges to Practice Web-based Training
This web-based training module was created for Florida adult educators to provide on-line professional development on learning disabilities in the adult student.

Keys to Effective LD Teaching Practice
This 161 page resource book was developed by Tennessee AE practitioners, Bridges to Practice trainers, and a UT professor/psychologist. It shares the action research experiences of a group of teachers as they used various instructional strategies and approaches reflecting "LD appropriate instruction" as described in Bridges to Practice.

Learning Disabilities Adaptations & Accommodations Guide
After a brief introduction to understanding learning disabilities and accommodations, this guide lays out a framework to match adaptations to a variety of literacy skills.

Learning Disability Resources
The LD Resources web site has been providing resources for people with learning disabilities since 1995.

NCLE Resource Collection: Learning Disabilities and Adult ESL
NCLE's Resource Collections bring together information and resources on topics of interest to those working in the field of adult ESL. The purpose of the collections is to provide a starting point for exploration--an overview of the reports, articles, organizations, and other resources that are currently available on specific topics.

NIFL Publications on Learning Disabilities
This site includes directories, newsletters and news articles relating to learning disabilities.

Online Course for Instructing Visually Impaired Adults
The American Foundation for the Blind National Literacy Center offers this course, free of charge, to all professionals interested in improving their awareness and understanding of issues faced by adults who are visually impaired and have low literacy skills.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
This site contains many links to resources and information pertaining to individuals with disabilities and how to bring accessibility to the World Wide Web to them.