Is Someone With Learning Disabilities Entitled To Any Benefits?

Learning disability is a disorder in basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or use mathematical calculations. The term includes conditions such as perceptual disability, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The condition can vary from mild, with almost no effect on the life of the person affected to severe, where the patient can not live independently. The government and several independent organisations offer help to People with learning disabilities from advice and contact groups to financial aid. People with learning disabilities can get disability living allowance, income support, incapacity benefit and careers allowance. The Social Fund can help a person with learning disability by providing thins like bedding, furniture and other household items. Another body offering help is the Independent Living Fund (ILF) which can give money, to a person with a learning disability, for hiring their own personal assistant.

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