| People with learning disabilities are not smart. |
There is no link between intellegence and learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities can have average to above average intelligence and many are gifted. |
| Learning disabilities arecaused by a lack of formal education. |
All learning disabilities are nuerological or brain-based disorders and have nothing to do with a person’s amount of formal education. |
| Learning disabilities are caused by emotional problems. |
Learning disabilities are not caused by or linked to emotional problems. |
| People with learning disabilites are lazy and lack motivation. |
A person with a learning disability has to work harder and be more motivated to cope with the effects of their disability. |
| People with learning disabilities can not hear properly. |
A person with a learning disabiltiy could,like anyone else, have problems with hearing but the conditions are not related. |
| People with learning disabilties have problems with their eyesight. |
A person with a learning disability could, like anyone else, have poor eyesight but there is no link between learning disabilties and vision. |
| Learning disabilities are caused by something the parents did. |
The causes of learning disabilites are still unknown, but they are not caused by a parent’s behaviour. |
| Learning disabilities are curable. |
A learning disability is a life-long condition. Learning disabilties do not go away and they cannot be cured, but people do learn to effectively cope with them. |
| People with learning disabilities are all the same. |
Learning disabilities affect people in different ways. There are many different kinds of learning disabilities and a person could have more than one. The affect of a learning disability can range from mild to severe. |
| People with learning disabilites don’t look like other people. |
People with learning disabilities look like other people. Learning disabilities are often called “invisible” because they are not easily noticeable. |