Perceptual-Motor Development

A child with a learning disability is essentially an atypical learner. His unresponsiveness is due not to a lack of intelligence, but to some other factor or many other factors. A learning disability, defined broadly, is any malfunction of the communicative process that interferes with the normal acquisition and expression of knowledge.1 Of our present-day school population, it has been estimated that between fifteen and twenty percent of the children have exhibited learning disorders to the extent that the quality of their achievement in school has been re-