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LD is frequently mistaken as laziness or associated with disorders of emotion and behavior.

In my undergraduate education, I had chance to be involved in a project on the learning disability; dyslexia, problems of sounds and words. We gathered data from children in various elementary school children in Istanbul. This was a fruitful experience to learn on the topic learning disabilities.

I wanted to share a topic on learning disabilities as I have encountered such students studying at the college I work for and did not know what to do with them. When I tried to involve parents to acknowledge them they preferred blaming the education system or the school itself. It must be very difficult for a parent to accept it but as teachers we need to be more knowledgeable about what to do and how to deal with it to save these learners with learning disabilities from exclusion and failure.

The reserach focuses on the relationship between individual needs(with disability) and product functions. To fill the gap and develop physical concepts, it presents some product designs. The research builds on general functions based on product design methods, formal human activity classification and ICF(It provides a systematic organizing scheme and coding rules for human functional ability and limitation) and data mining.Then they explore the applicability of a data mining technique, specifically association rule mining, as embodied in the Apriori algorithm to create knowledge in the form of quantitatively characterized heuristics for universal design.

The website offers audio and video course content for students from kindergarten to university. There are materials for different ages and disabled individuals. It may be better if students were allowed to share and download.