Do children ever grow out of a learning disability?

This is an interesting question that could take volumes to answer. Quickly: yes and no. If there is a neurological component related to an academic deficit - then you can’t outgrow it. BUT…one can be remediated and trained to a point where there is no seeming dysfunction. I am in this category. Having had very high fevers when I was little, I have virtually no ability in spatial relations nor do I have much of a memory for details. This has made it difficult for me to remember people’s names, etc. When I was five or six, I was very far behind in my reading. Yet, with a lot of hard work and care by my mother, I caught up. I now write reading books. Yet, when it comes to details I’m awful. On the other hand, when it comes to seeing the “big picture” there are few better than I. Too bad this world demands so much in the way of details.
So, in all practicalities, I do not “suffer” from an LD. Have I outgrown it? No. Now, there are many in schools who have aquired an LD label who are only behind because of environmental or developmental issues. Obviously, these children need not always have difficulties because they do not have a learning disability, per se. Hope this helped - it is a very complex question. Ken Campbell

My son has learned to cope, and is now at grade level. Tutoring helped a lot, but it was specific tutoring addressed to helping him cope. He will always have issues with writing, but assistive technology, and recognizing the need to ask for help editing, has helped trememdously. If your child does have a high IQ (twice exceptional), odds are he will figure out how to adapt to his disability and succeed in the world. I’m not sure you’d call it growing out of the LD, but maybe rather growing into his LD.

Kay

a friend of mine taught himself to read at the age of 18.. chronically dyslexic and suffering from bi-polar, it takes him three times longer to read than it takes the non-ld person.. having said that, he is now completing his doctorate in archaelogy..
he is still dyslexic but has learned to utilise his skills to his upmost and has a great belief in his abilities..
mind you when he was a child and then as a teenager, no amount of tutoring would help.. but his family never gave up and always gave him the belief that he would eventually succeed in academics.. very prophetic words:)

I would say it depends on the LD. My child has CAPD and is 16 y/o. I’ve tried tutoring but it does not help. CAPD generally creates deficiency in math and reading at school. In Florida they have online high school courses that I and my other daughter help her with. At home she does not have the distractions and better able to concentrate.
She is better since diagnosed at age 6, but I do not feel she will ever be cured from CAPD, just like a person with dyslexia. They must learn to deal with life situations as best as they can. And pray a lot.