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How Are Learning Disabilities Tested and Diagnosed?

Not all children learn at the same speed or through the same ways, but persistent challenges with reading, writing, and mathematics may warrant testing for a learning disability. Learning disabilities ...
Health Affairs

Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19

After years of advocacy by the disability community and allied organizations, on September 26, 2023, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) designated disabled people ...
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Surrey-based care organisation warns AI could widen disability employment gaps

Autistic people and adults with learning disabilities risk being left behind by the AI revolution, according to the Surrey-based group behind one of the UK's first peer-led AI training programmes for ...
Nuffield TrustOpinion

Missing from the learning disability register, missing from care

Up to three-quarters of young people expected to have a learning disability are possibly missing from primary care learning ...
Learning Disability TodayOpinion

Why learning disability nursing must be central to the NHS Quality Strategy

NHS England's Quality Strategy for NHS-funded Care in England sets out an ambition for quality through a culture of ...
Medical Xpress

Medical students with disabilities are at higher risk of burnout than peers

Medical students with co-occurring disabilities are more likely than their peers to experience burnout, a new Yale study finds. That risk increases if the student identifies as Asian or in a racial or ...