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Mental illness and learning disabilities have no general connection.
A mentally ill person is no more likely to have a learning disability than anyone else (although their condition might create circumstances that would make learning difficult for other reasons). Nor does a person with a learning disability necessarily have emotional or psychological problems. They simply have difficulty processing certain kinds of information into learned ideas or behavior.
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Is dyslexia a mental illness?
no. dyslexia is not the same as mental retardation.
Is mental illness a form of intellechial disabiolity?
Intellectual Disability...............
Difference between learning disability and physical disability?
according to wordreference.com a learning disability is: a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills physical disability: disability to perform a physical act, or mental disability
What disability does the federal employees compensation act provide compensation for?
mental illness
Is it legal to evict someone for mental reasons?
Does the landlord have mental reasons or does the tenant? It's against the law for a landlord to discriminate on the basis of disability, inter alia. So a landlord can't evict someone just because he has a mental illness or disability. However if the tenant damages any property, whether it is for reasons related to the illess, he can evict.
Difference between a learning and physical disabilities?
according to wordreference.com a learning disability is: a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills physical disability: disability to perform a physical act, or mental disability
What are severs?
A "severe" disability is one that has a huge impact on how someone gets by day to day. This could be through a physical disability, a mental impairment or an acute illness. When classing disability, its with regard to needing more help than someone of the same age without a disability. So to have a severe disability, you need a large amount of support and assistance.
Can you collect unemployment if you were fired at a time of mental illness?
If you were fired because of mental illness, then you should collect disability insurance, rather than unemployment insurance, and it lasts much longer.
Do seizures cause reading disability?
Not directly. If someone has Epilepsy it maybe as a result of some damage to the brain. If they have some damage to the brain, that may impair their ability to learn. In that situation, their epilepsy is just another symptom of the same thing that is causing their learning difficulties. Not everyone that has learning difficulties has epilepsy. Most people with epilepsy are well capable of learning and it has no impact on their capacity to learn. If their epilepsy causes them to miss out on regular education, which would only be with someone who has severe epilepsy, that will obviously affect their learning.
How do yu know someone has a mental illness?
ask them
Can someone with severe mental illness buy a firearm?
No
What is a word that describes a person with mental disabilities?
Most single-word descriptions of mental disability are considered to be insulting in various degrees. There are words that refer to particular forms of mental disability, illness or disease. However, some of the phrases normally used in polite society in the first part of the twenty-first century are: mentally challenged, mentally impaired, learning disabled, speech or language impaired
