Learning disabilities in adults are inability to acquire basic skills of reading, understanding and remembering numbers. This inability to understand simple words follow directions or even remember ordinary information leads to upsetting situation and in many cases the adults avoid social contact and interactions at all cost.

A number of adults suffer some kind of learning disabilities, and generally ordinary people avoid such people or leave them alone; however, they do not understand that it is possible for adults with cognitive and memory disabilities to acquire simple skills and they can live a life that is relatively normal even with their disability.

How many times we come across and walk away with the comment, ‘Can’t you answer a simple question, why you need to take so much time,’ when we across people who taken time to pronounce words or answer simple questions. We fail to understand that a person knows the answer, but finds it burdensome to find words to express it.

Let us check up few problems which generally a mental retarded adults face:

Failure to recognize simple words: The failure to recognize simple words is a general mental disability and very distressing. Sometimes this leads to labored reading process and inability to understand what the writer is trying to say. However, with patience and perseverance one can teach such adults to acquire basic reading and comprehension skills. One needs not feel superior, did you understand Kant’s categorical imperative when you read it the first time. You needed to read it over and over again to understand basic principles. In the same way sometimes adults with reading disabilities feel lost and disheartened by their inability to comprehend ordinary words. Impatience drives them deeper into depression and aggravates their learning disability. The failure to remember and recognize words, numbers and dates sometimes interfere with tasks connected to day to day life as well. Filling up a form or reading a magazine or watching a television serial becomes an ordeal.

Disability in Memory and Retention: In severe cases, some people forget or are unable to remember the days of the week, date and even years. Remembering and retaining normal information necessary for day to day living becomes an ordeal and leads to further deterioration.

Comprehension of visual stimuli: Normal people recognize patterns in the information they receive through their sensory organs, people with learning disability are unable to recognize the patterns. For us the information we receive is connected through our sensory organs is connected to the previous memory that enables us to make sense of and understand what is going on around us. People with learning problems are unable to connect the sensory stimuli to the information stored in the memory, e.g. they are unable to understand the facial expression, frowns, or smile.