All children have the potential to learn.
However, children's minds work in different ways. For some children, learning to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations is extremely difficult due to a learning disability. Despite a child having average or above average intelligence, these learning disabilities may have an effect on making friendships, on concentrating, on being able to remember and on the ability to understand and use language. Some learning disorders can have an effect on how the brain processes information that comes in visually, or processing information that comes in aurally. Another kind of learning disorder makes it difficult for a child to solve problems and reason with abstract information.