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firemonkey
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04 Nov 2017, 6:03 am

I know that learning difficulty/disability(US) is indicated by someone having a spiky profile. What about people who have such a profile but the weaker score still falls in the average range? Would a learning difficulty have to involve below average performance in one domain, or is the spread in score itself enough to indicate a learning difficulty?



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04 Nov 2017, 7:28 am

Not sure what you're talking about.

But to capsulize it: I think that what you're asking is something like this: "If you are genius in every area of your life except in one (lets say vision), but you are totally blind, then you might get disability. But if you're a genius in every other area of your life, but are only slightly near sighted, would you get disability?".

The answer to your question is "probably not". But I'm no lawyer.



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04 Nov 2017, 12:31 pm

I'm talking about a significant gap in IQ score between verbal and non-verbal/performance IQ. On thinking about it I lean to the position of if you are not impaired in one area ,but just have a significantly lower score, then you may well not have a learning difficulty.