Hi Tanya! I appreciate your question because career school instructors, working with so much diversity of adult learners, are not necessarily professionally trained in addressing learning disabilities, yet we, of course, must face the challenge. I think one difference between a student who is not a skilled writer and one with a learning disability is that the less skilled writer is challenged with simply presenting information in written form, whereas the student with a learning disability may be challenged with actually processing the information, connecting so to speak thought with output. For the student with poor writing skills, practice, vocabulary and basic grammar exercises may help; for the learning challenged students, we may have to rethink how we present information as well as the best way for them to demonstrate application. Fortunately, strategies such as tutoring, allowing more time, and varying both our delivery techniques and the assessments we use, tend to help both of these examples. The real challenge is that we are usually hard pressed for time to cover a great deal of topics and applications in our courses, and as we make a special effort to help those especially challenged students, when they enter or re-enter the workplace, it is a far less-forgiving environment. Thanks again for your response! Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator