There are different types of learning disabilities that people may suffer from. They usually affect one or more areas of the learning process in the brain.

Experts have categorized them as to belonging to either academic skills or speech and language disorders. Here is a list of the various learning disabilities:

Developmental Reading Disorder

Dyslexia is considered as the most common of the different learning abilities affecting people. Dyslexia affects about 70 to 80 percent of people with learning disabilities. It is characterized by problems with reading or trying to make sense out of the written language.

Many experts believe that there are different types of reading disabilities from which dyslexia is one of them. Developmental reading disorders can affect any part of the reading process. This includes difficulty with accurate or fluent word recognition, word decoding, rate of reading or even reading comprehension.

Developmental Writing Disorder

This learning disability concerns a person's difficulty with handwriting or with writing in such a way that makes sense to others. It might even go to the extent that the person himself might not be able to read his won handwriting.

Developmental writing disorders may also include impairments in spelling, composition and the organization of ideas. Dysgraphia is the usual term used that encompasses all disorders in the nature of written expression.

Developmental Math Disorder

This learning disability usually involves difficulties with calculations or grasping certain mathematical concepts such as quantity, place value and time. Also called dyscalculia, this learning disability is usually characterized by difficulties in organizing numbers, memorizing math facts as well as how problems can be organized on a page.

The abovementioned learning disabilities belong to the academic skill category or disorders. There are also other learning disabilities that involve speech and language. They are:

Developmental Articulation Disorder. This is a learning disability that is characterized by difficulties in producing speech sounds and pronouncing certain letters and letter combinations.

Developmental Expressive Language Disorder. This learning disability involves difficulties in using the spoken language to communicate and expressing oneself verbally.

Developmental Receptive Language Disorder. A learning disability that involves difficulties in understanding what other people are saying. This disorder is usually characterized by failure to effectively process the words spoken by others logically as thoughts.

Aside for learning disabilities that affect academic skills as well as language and speech, some people may also suffer from other types of learning disorders that might involve the other senses. There are some people who suffer from a Visual processing disorder that arises from a difficulty in making sense of information received visually. This disorder includes difficulties in recognizing spatial relationships, identifying shapes as well as differentiating a part of an image from the whole.

There is also another learning disability known as dyspraxia, a form of developmental motor skill disorder. This learning disability concerns problems arising from effective use of motor skills such as clumsiness with tools and using ones fingers and hands. There is also the nonverbal learning disorder that is a learning disability involving difficulties in understanding nonverbal communication. A person suffering from this learning disability may be proficient with language but may experience difficulty with developing organizational, social and motor skills.