Jessica Kirkpatrick, a data scientist at Hired with a learning disability.
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She has a learning disability and is a community support worker.
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She was inspired by her aunt, who has a learning disability.
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Sadly we've both been bullied and targeted because of our learning disability.
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This does reveal that any student using electronics has a learning disability.
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I have a learning disability: ADHD and a low form of Aspergers.
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There he found out he had a learning disability called acquired dyslexia.
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In November 2018, she learned that Nydia had an unspecified learning disability.
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He's on an IEP for a "specific learning disability" (similar to dyslexia/dysgraphia).
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However, it was actually a shared learning disability that brought them closer together.
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That gives cash-strapped local authorities less leeway to cut learning-disability services.
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A failed family farm, mangled limb, learning disability or snit with a coach.
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Quoirin, who has a learning disability, could not have gone far, he added.
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Parents would use medical documentation to claim their children had a learning disability.
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I felt such a sense of relief with having a learning disability diagnosis.
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She has a learning disability that makes multitasking and interacting with customers difficult.
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Taking the advice of an autism and learning disability expert, I ditched my iPod.
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Prince John, the baby of the family, had severe epilepsy and a learning disability.
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Hoffman's father, Timothy Hoffman, told CNN affiliate KTVA that his daughter had a learning disability.
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"WMATA, historically speaking, has had a severe learning disability," NTSB Board Member Robert Sumwalt said.
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Still, he was not tested for a learning disability until he was enrolled at Leadership.
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And Jessica Kirkpatrick, a data scientist at Hired, who had to overcome an undiagnosed learning disability.
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Family members say the man who died Wednesday had a learning disability, the Daily News reports.
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Founder Jason Burns has a learning disability, too, and initially he made the toys for himself.
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Previn said she has a learning disability, but early on it caused strife with her mother.
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He had trouble reading the words as she spoke because he had an undiagnosed learning disability.
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Both Been and Wood's lawyer, Tyler, say Wood has a learning disability and an IQ of 80.
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Tom Hanks plays a man dealing with a learning disability in the most broadly comedic fashion possible.
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"A client can be dealing with all sorts of issues — depression, learning disability, family concerns," she said.
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He has a learning disability, is partially blind, and comes from a working-class background in Brooklyn.
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More than 178 people, a helicopter and canine units are searching for Quoirin, who has a learning disability.
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More babies are surviving previously fatal conditions, such as premature birth, to reach adulthood with a learning disability.
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One coach actually asked me if I knew who Jesus was and if I had a learning disability.
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She wanted another grandchild to undergo testing for a learning disability but received little guidance from the school.
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"My cousin Laurent is one of the 1.4 million people with a learning disability in the U.K.," he said.
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At the end of third grade last year, Terry was finally evaluated and diagnosed with a specific learning disability.
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Not letting a learning disability get in the way of their success A Silicon Valley executive, wife and mother.
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Mendoza-Sanchez had longed to one day see her daughter, who she helped overcome a learning disability, reach graduation day.
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Like her peers in the newly opened café, Domenica — who is the late Princess Diana's goddaughter — has a learning disability.
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I know now that I suffered from a learning disability, so that's why words and numbers were hard for me.
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With my learning disability (I have ADHD), I can't just skip school every Friday, like the organization wants us to.
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It was also revealed that at the time of Dassey's conviction he was a vulnerable teenage kid with a learning disability.
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In fact, he has a learning disability, is partially blind, and comes from a working-class background in Brooklyn, New York.
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Like all the fourth graders in that room, Mr. Salzer had a learning disability based on how his brain handled language.
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He has a "significant" history of mental illness, according to Mr. Weekes, and may be autistic or have a learning disability.
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This little girl, very pleasant and hard working, seems to have a learning disability, and nothing is being done about it.
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LONDON — Learning disability campaigners are calling on dating app OkCupid to apologise and remove an "offensive and discriminatory" question from its site.
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Mr Caplan, the international lawyer, allegedly faked a learning-disability diagnosis for his daughter and paid $75,000 for a boosted admissions score.
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As a result of the findings, Mencap is encouraging clubs to add learning disability awareness training to their usual staff training protocol.
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Vanessa received some help last year, when her youngest child, Tatiyana, was approved for Supplemental Security Income because of a learning disability.
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Mr. Cruz has a "significant" history of mental illness, according to Mr. Weekes, and is possibly autistic or has a learning disability.
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She was allowed extra time to complete it because of a learning disability, and she had already taken the PSAT exam twice.
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As was discovered later, she had dyslexia, a learning disability that was not then recognized and that had also affected her mother.
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"My cousin Laurent is one of the 1.4 million people with a learning disability in the UK," he said, according to the charity.
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It should be noted that many accounts of Einstein's young life claim that he may have had a learning disability such as dyslexia.
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Six percent of those surveyed said they would feel uncomfortable using the same swimming pool as someone with a more severe learning disability.
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The Anchorage Daily News reports the victim's family has said she has a learning disability and functions at a younger developmental age than 19.
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The actress, 46, opened up about growing up with dyslexia, revealing how her teachers taught her how to overcome her learning disability in school.
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The Anchorage Daily News reports the victim's family has said she had a learning disability and functioned at a younger developmental age than 19.
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"People with a learning disability have a right to a night out like anyone else," said Mencap's Head of Campaigns and Activism, Rossanna Trudgian.
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Grayson reveals, in an unusually tense conversation with Sarek, that as children, Spock had a learning disability, which made him an outcast on Vulcan.
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But she fears what the future may hold: one of her older children was poisoned at a similar age and now has a learning disability.
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Autistic adults who don't have a learning disability, like me, are still nine times more likely to die from suicide than our non-autistic peers.
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The condition occurs when an individual is born with an extra copy of chromosome 21, and those with Down Syndrome usually have a learning disability.
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What's worse, bullying seems to be one of the reasons people with a learning disability don't attend gigs or nightclubs, and this needs to change.
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"I looked into the statistic and there are 1.4 million people with a learning disability, and only 6 percent with an employment record," she says.
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LONDON — A British learning disability charity has launched a beautiful photo series in the hope of changing the way society views people with learning disabilities.
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"We're working with all departments of police and the fire service to locate the teenager," a police spokesman said, adding the girl had a learning disability.
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The findings reveal not only that learning disability classifications in the U.S. are subjective and inconsistent, but that they are prone to bias based on context.
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But more thorough testing revealed that his math achievement scores were low, and he ended up with a diagnosis of a math learning disability, or dyscalculia.
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Once a family agreed to the scheme, Singer would tell them to seek extended time for the exam by claiming a learning disability for their child.
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Viewing dyslexia as a unique set of abilities with varying patterns of strengths and challenges -- instead of a one-size-fits-all learning disability -- is gaining traction.
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There wasn't a word for dyslexia back then, but small pockets of expertise around this kind of learning disability were starting to pop up in academic communities.
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However others are sometimes awkward and afraid when it comes to engaging with someone with a learning disability and that means they are often ignored and overlooked.
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One man with a learning disability said that while he was in jail, he met the real perpetrators of the robbery for which he had been arrested.
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Dassey would change his story multiple times, which led many to believe that it was a false confession, and that police took advantage of Dassey's learning disability.
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Mencap is now making a new push to promote its Sidekick program, which connects volunteers with people with a learning disability in their area who have similar interests.
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Burke, a case named for Raymond Abbott, a student in Camden who received no services for a learning disability and was barely literate at the age of 15.
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Folks with disabilities get a nice variety of new emoji, though of course these aren't exhaustive (for example, how do you represent a learning disability or mental illness?).
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A message of positivity, not disability Dyslexia is a common learning disability that results in difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading, according to the International Dyslexia Association.
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Analie, who is 7 and a big fan of the movie "Frozen," has a learning disability that she has been working to overcome with speech and occupational therapy.
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A severe case of dyslexia went unidentified for years, he said, and even when teachers suspected he had a learning disability, no one knew how to address it.
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In some instances, Singer would instruct parents to have their kids fake a learning disability, so they (or an imposter) would get more time to take the test.
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Huffman also found a mental health professional to diagnose a fake learning disability for her daughter, which would allow her to have extra time for the college entrance exams.
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She thinks about her learning disability that renders written words difficult to comprehend, and about what she can do to keep her children from facing the same educational challenges.
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There's no medical test to diagnose dyslexia, yet it's estimated that a staggering 43.5 million Americans have the learning disability, which hinders them from recognizing or sounding out words.
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Search teams had been scouring the rainforest surrounding the Dusun resort since Quoirin, who has a learning disability, was found to be missing from her bedroom nine days ago.
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Diverse but well-respected people, she said, had sought her services for issues ranging from their child's learning disability to what type of second career they should take on.
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After undergoing tests at the urging of his coach and being found to have a learning disability, he turned his life around, and ultimately transferred to Southern Connecticut State.
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For parents desperate to boost their children's SAT or ACT scores, the test preparation company Student-Tutor offered an enticing solution: claim a learning disability and qualify for extra time.
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Having a learning disability and getting kicked out of six schools, as it turns out, are side effects of his mind being hard-wired for battle and reading ancient Greek.
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Classified as a learning disability, dyspraxia is usually picked up by educational staff who have contact with multiple children on a daily basis and who are trained to identify developmental problems.
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According to the study, even when children had the same test scores and social backgrounds, one could be determined to have a learning disability in one school, and not in another.
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Another parent, William McGlashan Jr., was instructed by Singer to claim his child had a learning disability in order to win more time for his son to take the exam alone.
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Learning disability designations allowed the children of parents indicted in the Varsity Blues scandal to take exams in particular rooms presided over by administrators who allowed someone to correct wrong answers.
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The Kansas City Chiefs legend was diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age ... and used track and field at Special Olympics events to help him get through tough times.
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"As someone with a learning disability who is married and thinking about maybe having children in the future, I find this question inappropriate, offensive and discriminatory," wrote Lawrence in an official statement.
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That's because those the model actually has a learning disability and is genuinely hurt every time someone attacks her for it, whether they realize the full ramifications of their words or not.
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Ms. Hoffman went by the name CeeCee and graduated from high school in 2018, despite struggling with her studies because of a learning disability, her father told KTUU, the Anchorage NBC affiliate.
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Jayde Perry, the representative for CODA International, says that she could speak AUSLAN [Australian sign language] from the age of two, but her teachers assumed her lack of English was a learning disability.
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"If I were to make a list of my top, say, seven or eight entrepreneurs I've invested in on 'Shark Tank,' I would say all but one have a learning disability," she says.
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Search teams have been trawling the rainforest surrounding the Dusun resort since the 15-year-old, who has a learning disability, was found to be missing from her bedroom on Sunday, August 4.
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Mr. Singer encouraged some parents to get a learning disability waiver for their children, which can give students more time to take the tests or allow them do so without the regular supervision.
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In August, Duffin ruled the guilty verdict returned by a trial jury in 2007 against Dassey was based on a coerced confession he gave as a 16-year-old youth with a learning disability.
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Foxes cites estimates from Britain's Department of Education which shows that the cumulative cost of supporting a person with a moderate learning disability throughout their adult life (from 16 to 64) is up to £3m ($3.8m).
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First there was the college admissions scandal earlier this year, which revealed the elaborate lengths wealthy parents will go to get their children into elite schools, including faking a learning disability and forking over $22001 million.
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I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well.
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Victim had a learning disability Hoffman was brought to Thunderbird Falls by Brehmer and McIntosh in a truck borrowed from Leyland under the ruse they were going on a hike near the Eklutna River, the statement said.
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Although in the classroom Drake accommodated Thomas's lifelong language-based learning disability, which made communication difficult, he was left to defend himself in a nine-hour hearing, in which he frequently stumbled and was asked to speak up.
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Leafy, from his "face reveal" video YouTuber LeafyIsHere mocked a man with a learning disability, describing him as "looking like he went through five different strokes" among other things, in an almost 11-minute rant that begins with Hitler jokes.
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A Black student at a school with few other Black children is more likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability than a similarly performing child at a predominantly Black school, a new study in Society and Mental Health found.
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A high school boy eager to enroll at the University of Southern California was falsely deemed to have a learning disability so he could take his standardized test with a complicit proctor who would make sure he got the right score.
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David Tennant and Jessica Hynes star as the parents Simon and Emily in this dramedy about the joys and challenges of raising a child with a learning disability, based on the real-life parenting journey of the show's creator, Shaun Pye.
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In August, Magistrate Judge William Duffin of the Eastern District of Wisconsin ruled the guilty verdict returned by a trial jury in 2007 against Dassey was based on a coerced confession he gave as a 16-year-old youth with a learning disability.
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Only 28503 states and Washington, D.C. have state-funded school choice voucher programs, and in virtually all of those states, only certain students — usually impoverished students or those with some sort of a learning disability — are able to apply for a choice program.
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Diana Hanbury King, a master teacher who helped generations of students struggling to read fluently, write and spell — and being stigmatized for it — because of an often undiagnosed learning disability called dyslexia, died on June 15 at her home in Lakeville, Conn.
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"The diagnosis changed every way I felt about myself and every way I felt about my chances in the world," she said in a 2014 interview with Camp Spring Creek, a summer camp in Bakersville, N.C., for children with dyslexia, a learning disability.
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They also can help shed light on the root causes—for instance, whether your student's performance is suffering because of a learning disability or because anxiety or peer conflict is keeping him or her in the counselor's office for hours, Schnaue points out.
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Baires has also, for instance, tried cases in the specialized court in which the plaintiff has a learning disability and requires more time for answering questions, and cases in which the plaintiff must bring young children to court due to lack of access to a caretaker.
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Without the case files, though, it's impossible to know which side is telling the truth — or if the truth lies somewhere in the middle (for example, Montes's learning disability might have led him to sign a confession, or a waiver of legal protection, without understanding it).
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The Tendr coalition includes pediatric neurologists, several minority physician associations, nurses, learning disability advocacy groups, environmental organizations, and the Endocrine Society, which has compiled several scientific statements documenting adverse health effects linked to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that mimic or disrupt the hormones in our own bodies.
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The Department of Justice, under President Barack Obama, issued guidance to testing companies in 2015 encouraging them to defer to documentation from qualified professionals attesting to a student's learning disability, even if the student had not been granted formal testing accommodations by his or her school.
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And keep in mind, I have a learning disability, a processing disorder, so you wouldn't think on paper, that a girl with processing issues enjoys talking to people to an extent where I'm following up, I'm listening, because that was something I used to struggle with a lot.
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Just one month after invading the Franklin home, Knepper and the same two officers involved in the Franklin case, Officers Eric Mentz and Michael Stuk, were, according to local media reports, asked by a 7-Eleven clerk with a learning disability to stop a drunk driver who had just left the store.
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"The biggest names you can think of when you think of any particular area in terms of discovery and changing the world for us ... they all had a mental health diagnosis or a learning disability or sometimes both, so I was pretty struck by that," said Saltz, who also hosts "The Power of Different" podcast.
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Worst of all, according to the charging documents, some parents worked with Singer to get their child falsely diagnosed with a learning disability so they could be provided with a reasonable accommodation for extra time and a quiet space for the test and Singer could swap out an official proctor with someone on his payroll.
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