Scientists believe that many severe learning difficulties are one disease caused by a malfunctioning gene - Westend61 A faulty gene is likely to be responsible for many severe learning difficulties, ...

A man died decades after the whooping cough vaccine led to him developing epilepsy and severe learning difficulties.

The duty a local authority has to children with severe learning difficulties is only a target duty to children in general under the Children Act 1989 and not a duty to a particular child. That was the ...

Excerpted from What Teachers Need to Know About Memory by Jonathan Firth and Nasima Riazat. Copyright (c) 2024 by Corwin Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Some of the ...

The lack of adequate support available to families caring for children with a severe or profound learning difficulty is pushing them to breaking point, new research reveals. In 2003, learning ...

While cerebral palsy may or may not directly affect someone’s cognition, that doesn’t mean it can’t affect their mental health. Cerebral palsy is a brain condition that a doctor typically diagnoses ...