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**Definition of Specific Learning Disability**
**The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Definition of Specific Learning Disability (SLD) is below.** Specific learning disability (SLD) means "a disorder in one or more of the 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 perform mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing motor disabilities, cognitive disabilities, emotional disturbance, cultural factors, environmental, or economic disadvantage." [| PI 11.36(6), Wis. Admin. Code]. Federal SLD criteria is found at [|34 CFR.540-543].