• A significant number of learning disabilities are either not identified or not properly assessed, and proper special education services are therefore not provided.
• Despite intelligence levels adequate to go to college, students with unidentified or inappropriately identified learning disabilities drop out of school, barely pass and have lower paying unskilled jobs.
• Children with learning disabilities are often segregated unnecessarily from non-disabled peers and thus denied the opportunity to develop necessary social skills.
• Segregated classes are often not as academically rigorous and lack many resources found in regular education classes.
• Non-disabled peers are denied the opportunity to learn about and from disabled peers, perpetuating stereotypes of the disabled.
• Unaddressed leaning disabilities lead to behavioral problems that mask the initial disability (50-78% of juveniles incarcerated have learning disabilities).
• Children with unaddressed learning disabilities often self medicate with alcohol and drugs (60% of people recovering from addictions have some form of a learning disability).
