How do people get learning disabilities?
There are as many ways to acquire learning disabilities as there are learning disabilities. Some seem to be genetic as they run in families. Some have been identified as being cause by specific chromosome differences. Some are caused by birth trauma – lack of oxygen, too much oxygen, forceps delivery. Some are caused by accidents – stroke, coma, brain injury. Others are caused by environmental factors; a parent smoking, drinking, taking drugs, or having severe malnutrition (either not just the mother – can effect the quality of the sperm), severe malnutrition, or exposure to lead or other toxins. There are more reasons than this.
