Schools, and more specifically educators, have an important role to play in identifying individuals with learning disabilities; hence, the fact to be aware of is that learning disabilities do exist and they are neurologically linked disorders that make it difficult to acquire a specific academic skill (e.g. reading, writing, math, expressive language, etc.).
In other words, students really struggle in an academic area, and they are not performing optimally in this area because of how their brain is wired; it is not because they are lazy, unmotivated, or uninterested in the subject matter! This results in advocacy for a proactive or remedial approach to teaching and learning skills.
