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Learning Disability

A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things throughout their lifetime. The link below will help you to understand how a learning disability can affect someone, and where support can be found.

A learning disability also affects the way a person understands information and how they communicate. This means they can have difficulty:

  • understanding new or complex information
  • learning new skills
  • coping independently

Around 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability. It’s thought up to 350,000 people have a severe learning disability. This figure is increasing.