Learning disability classification: time for re‐appraisal?

Abstract

This article explores the nature of the classifications of learning disabilities as promulgated in the diagnostic manuals. By leaving aside all doubts and controversies that surround the concept and measurement of intellectual functioning, weaknesses are exposed from within those manuals' own frames of reference. The difficulties arising from using the international sub‐classifications of learning disabilities when the national classifications should apply are discussed.

Citation

Leyin, A. (2010), "Learning disability classification: time for re‐appraisal?", Tizard Learning Disability Review, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 33-44. https://doi.org/10.5042/tldr.2010.0168