New study suggests how to best educate learning disabled and gifted students. Up to 10% of people may have learings disorders.

Specific learning disabilities (SLDs) are estimated to affect up to 10% of the population, and they co-
occur far more often than would be expected, given their prevalences. We need to understand the
complex etiology of SLDs and their co-occurrences in order to underpin the training of teachers,
school psychologists, and clinicians, so that they can reliably recognize SLDs and optimize the
learning contexts for individual learners...

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6130/300.full

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