The sobering fact of family law is that to be in the business of orchestrating

Learning Disability and Nonverbal Learning Disability
“Learning disability” (LD) and “nonverbal learning disability” (NVLD)
are labels that describe meaningful discrepancies of cognitive function-
ing within an individual, some of which have direct bearing on language
comprehension and/or production.
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NVLD, for example, refers to a
pattern of verbal strengths as contrasted with relative nonverbal (e.g.,
visual-spatial) cognitive weaknesses. The
Diagnostic and Statistical Man-
ual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition
(
DSM
-
IV
; APA, 1994) defines
four specific LDs as well as two additional, language-related diagnoses:

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