what is the difference between learning disability and slow learner?

Answer 1

A person with a learning disability may have a sort of "peak" in ability to learn, preform tasks, and so on. Once it is reached, that is when it would be diagnosed as a disability. Although it isnt always the case. Some who are thougth to have a disability never cease to learn new stuff, but usually have a threashhold that they cannot surpass.
As for slow learner, it is thought that they have unlimited potetial for capacity and comprehension, but come by it slower than others. Along with other symptoms, slow learning can be a sign of a disability, but intil a peak or threshhold is established, it prob wouldnt be diagnosed as such.

Answer 2

There is not really a difference. Someone with a learning disability has an IQ below 70. They will be a slow learner because they do not have the intelligence to understand things as quickly as people with a higher IQ. There is however a difference between learning disability (someone with a low IQ) and learning difficulty. A learning difficulty could be some thing like dyslexia which makes reading harder. People with learning difficulties do not necessarily have a low IQ. In the UK learning disability is medically recognised (as mentally retarded is used in the USA) however slow learner is just a term that could be used to mean someone who has trouble memorising and not understanding.

Answer 3

They are somewhat the some. A learning disability could be dyxlia or color blindness, so they learn slower but are still very intellgent.

A slow learner is someone who needs help in one or two areas of learning. Like reading which effects everything, or math. They just need extra help in these areas.

Answer 4

people who have learning disability means they find it really hard to pick up anything. A slow learner would be someone who finds it hard to grasp some topics but eventually later he'll start understanding. Like me for eg im doing a physics degree at the moment so my maths is really tight, i can grasp it pretty quickly but when it comes to some of the theory im just looooost. Sometimes i can be a hardcore slow learner but that dont make me retarded does it. ;)

Answer 5

A slow learner is someone who's disability hasn't been diagnosed.

Answer 6

there is no such thing a learning disability but there is difference for people who learn. I am a slow boomer. I begin to learn things at a later stage. there are people who are very smart in the beginning but flat line it later. it just takes me longer to get things into place but when i get it, i am good. that does not make me a stupid person. architecture is tough.

if i look at learning disability, i would classify that like dislexia or a physical impairment but i think my view on it is wrong.

Answer 7

There's hardly any such thing as a "learning disability." Most often, that's adults pressuring children to learn according to their ambitions and not the child's interests, inclinations or aptitudes.

Answer 8

Maybe nothing