learning disabilities are very comm

learning disabilities are very common effect perhaps ten percent of all children among them about eighty per cent are boys you cannot always look at the children and if they have a learning disability are often no obvious signs of the disorder so some researchers began looking at the brain itself to learn what might be wrong there is no longer any question that all learning disabilities result from differences in the way the brain is organized in one study researchers examined the brain of a learning disabled person who had died in an accident they found unusual things what involves in the left side of the brain which control language. however the cells were great the researchers also found that many of the nerve cells were not organized in a line the way they should have been the nerves were all mixed together the study was carried out under the guidance of doctor jones and expert on learning disabilities doctor jones suggested that learning disabilities resulted mainly from problems in the left side of the brain probably he said there did not connect other researchers measure the brain's electrical activity and made a map of the electrical signals doctor another expert on learning disabilities experimented with this technique at a children's hospital medical center. differences appear throughout the brain. Doctor Duffy said his research provides evidence that reading disabilities involved damage to a wide area, the brain not just to the left side