Our Purpose
The Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) is a national professional
organization consisting of teachers, higher education professionals, administrators,
parents, and others. The major purposes of DLD are:
- To promote the education and general welfare of persons with learning disabilities.
- To provide a forum for discussion of issues facing the field of learning disabilities.
- To encourage interaction among the many disciplinary groups whose research and service efforts impact persons with learning disabilities.
- To foster research regarding the varied disabilities subsumed in the term ‘learning disabilities’ and promote dissemination of research findings.
- To advocate exemplary professional training practices to insure the highest quality of services in the field of learning disabilities.
- To promote exemplary diagnostic and teaching practices in a context of tolerance for new and divergent ideas.
The DLD Constitution and Bylaws are designed to support this purpose.