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The image shows the English definition of a learning disability in quotation marks.

The definition reads: Learning Disability includes the presence of … A significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information, to learn new skills (impaired intelligence), with … A reduced ability to cope independently (impaired social functioning); … Which started before adulthood, with a lasting effect on development.

(Department of Health, 2001, para 1.5, p. 14)