Learning Disability

Rain was bouncing off the parking lot pavement as 81 competitors converged on Sunken Meadow State Park for a Sunday morning 5K run. And for the first mile of the race, runners faced wind and what one runner described as a "treacherous downpour." "The...

Sharon L. Harris found out she would lead Baltimore County's first public charter school, Imagine Discovery, this spring, when she was an assistant principal at Windsor Mill Middle. Harris, 49, hasn't stopped moving since, selecting teachers (about 30),...

Organizers of a national health study are seeking about 3,600 Florida youngsters to track from the womb to their 21st birthdays. Organizers of the National Children's Study said Friday that more than $3 billion will be spent on the massive research...

Susan Gordon's son, Michael, is doing well in school despite a neurological disorder that causes major learning disabilities. By working closely with teachers at Southern High School in Anne Arundel County, he passed all his classes last year. He even...

Michigan is getting $57 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand its role in a research project to study children's health. The National Children's Study aims to learn how the environment and other factors affect youngsters' health,...

About 1,000 Orange County youngsters will be part of a nationwide health study that plans to track 100,000 children from the womb to their 21st birthdays. The goal is to understand what role genetics and environment play in autism, obesity, asthma,...

Marcus Gillespie had reservations about playing his first Miracle League game. Born with a learning disability and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Gillespie didn't know what to expect from a baseball field built for special-needs children....

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The largest study of U.S. children ever performed — aiming to track 100,000 from conception to age 21 — will start recruiting mothers-to-be in North Carolina and New York in January. The ambitious National Children's Study...

Marcus Gillespie had reservations about playing his first Miracle League game. Born with a learning disability and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Gillespie just didn't know what to expect from playing organized baseball in a park built for...

Regarding the paying of students for their grades: Has anyone considered that some of the C students actually work harder for their grades than the A students? All students have their own individual learning styles and sometimes the teachers teach in...

People living in Chicago and nearby suburbs face some of the highest risks in the nation for cancer, lung disease and other health problems linked to toxic chemicals pouring from industry smokestacks, according to a Tribune analysis of federal data....

Students with learning disabilities are applying to college this fall at more than five times the rate of the 1980s -- and facing a confusing thicket of special-needs jargon in the process. Colleges and universities are "the new frontier, in terms of...