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The Causes of Learning Disabilities: New Study Provides Some Answers

by Merely Me
Monday, September 14, 2009

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    Eileen Bailey
    Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 02:33 PM

    Thanks so much for sharing all of this with us. So many of these studies are so hard to read and you seem to have managed to make it a little easier to understand.

     

    I will, however, leave the theories as to where it all comes from up to the researchers.

     

    Eileen


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    Paul
    Friday, September 18, 2009 at 02:29 PM

    You actually wrote this in a manner I could follow! No small achievement, be proud of yourself!

     

    I'm just wanting the day to come when the researchers can say...and this, is what we are going to do to fix it; what people go through, and their families.

    That's what I need to hear, that we've definitely found the problem and a way to improve, if not completely repair. Even perhaps, intervention in the womb.

     

    I know that is simplistic, way too simplistic, but that is what they are pursuing, I hope. Anyway, somewhere out of the technical papers and jargon, you've presented material understandable. Thank you for this.


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