All parents want their children to do well at school. Children and young people learn at different rates and may have different events going on in their lives that can affect their rate of learning.
Schools, colleges and local authorities can help most children and young people overcome these difficulties. For some, these difficulties are short-term.
Other children and young people may need more support to achieve their potential. This may be because they have an additional learning need, which means that they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for additional learning provision. Some may need additional support in particular areas of their education, whilst others may need help with all or most aspects of their education.
Children/young people have a learning difficulty or disability if they have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of other children and young people of the same age; or if they have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of usual school or college facilities.