Learning difficulty refers to a term covering people who experience more problems than the general population with activities that involve thinking and understanding. Moreover, Learning difficulty is a term that refers to disorders that affect the ability to interpret what one sees and hears or the ability to link information from different parts of the brain, thus disrupting the processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written.

This manifests itself in an imperfect ability to listen, speak, think, read, write, spell or use mathematical calculations. The term includes conditions such as dyslexia, brain injury, perceptual disability, minimal brain dysfunction and developmental aphasia.