What is it about?
The term learning disabilities has different understandings. Even professionals and diagnosticians understand that term in various and sometimes contradictory ways.
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Why is it important?
Even though the term learning disabilities seems self explanatory, it seems that its' exact meanings are not clear even for diagnosticians. The term has many different meanings. A fact that is usually ignored when using the term without probing into the meaning the professionsal attributes to it.
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This page is a summary of: ‘Learning Disabilities’ as a ‘Black Box’: On the Different Conceptions and Constructions of a Popular Clinical Entity in Israel, Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-014-9398-3.
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