The challenge with undiagnosed learning disabilities is that they can present and defiant behaviors, so if a students makes it through elementary and middle school without receiving a learning disability diagnosis and struggles at the high school or post-secondary level, the symptoms will be treated as behaviors and will likely lead to putative actions rather than supports. Even when students have been diagnosed and an IEP is in place, some instructors continue to address the presentations of the disability as disruptive and disrespectful behavior, rather than providing the appropriate accommodations. Therefore students with learning disabilities are often pushed out of K-12.
