what do you know ? about learning disabilities
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What do you know ? About Learning Disabilities. Did you know…?. As many as 1 in 5 people in the U.S. has a learning disability. That means, in Washington, 1,279,160 individuals live with learning disabilities. And by the way… That’s more than a month’s worth of visitors - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What do you know?
About Learning Disabilities
Did you know…?
As many as 1 in 5 people in the U.S. has a learning
disability
That means, in Washington,
1,279,160 individuals live
with learning disabilities
And by the way…
That’s more than a month’s worth of visitors
to Disneyland
Did you know…?
51% of students receiving special education services through the public schools
are identified as having learning disabilities
(Source: 25th Annual Report to Congress, 2005)
Learning Disabilities
Account for more than all other disabilities
combined!!
That’s more than all of these together:
Autism Spectrum Mental ImpairmentDevelopmental Delay Physical DisabilityVisual Impairment Hearing ImpairmentADHD Mental Retardation
• Specific Learning Disabilities increased 22% between 1978 – 2003
Did you know…?
• There was an increase of 38% in the last decade of this study alone
(Source: National Institutes of Health, 2003)
Did you know…?There are nearly
3 million children (ages 6-21) with a diagnosed Specific LD
Some perspective…They would fill up Qwest Field
45 times!!!
These numbers do not include children in private and religious schools or home-schooled children
(Source: 25th Annual Report to Congress, U.S. Department of Education, 2005)
“The U.S. Department of Education
collects and publishes an array of data on these children and young adults
(k-12)…”
“Once these students leave formal schooling,
the data trail unfortunately disappears,
making it virtually impossible to gather reliable data on
this older community of citizens.”Dr. Sheldon Horowitz
Did you know…?
39% of children with learning disabilities
drop out of high school
(Source: Sheldon Horowitz, NCLD Director of Professional Services, LDNews, March 2006)
And naturally…
Many of these children grow up and come to
your programs as adults.
30 to 80 percent of adult learners have learning
challenges that negatively impact their
learning( http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/faqs.html#learning )
Adults with diagnosed or undiagnosed learning
disabilities are estimated to make up
about 50% of adult education
students
Approximately 38 – 44% of TANF
recipients are individuals with
learning disabilities(Washington and Kansas TANF studies)
And…
According to a 1997 survey, 50% of inmates in state or federal prisons, (Harlow) reported that they did not
have a high school diploma.
Of this group,
66% were identified as having learning
disabilities(Harlow, 1997)
To make matters even more challenging:
• Few professionals are adequately trained to work with adults who
display characteristics associated with
learning disabilities
• Few adult education systems have a process in place to
identify and appropriately serve adults with
learning disabilities
And yet…
“The expectations placed on graduating high school students today, especially
given the highly technical and increasingly specialized nature of the workforce, have never
been higher.”
So…
“The challenges faced by students
with learning disabilities in high school
and beyond are, in a word,
enormous.”Dr. Sheldon Horowitz
Did you know…?
Washington State has been working to address this
need in adult basic education
since 2000.
You are a part of that effort.