Learning disabilities: case study of the Piedmont Region in the years 2006-2007-2008.

Aim: The aim of the study is to analyse the comorbidity of learning disabilities (LD), its variation relating to the age of the children and to interpret the possible meaning of these data.

Methods: All patients in age of compulsory education (aged 5-16) diagnosed as LD in Piedmont, registered in the Regional Informative System NPI.net, in the years 2006-2007-2008, were considered.

The ICF-based functioning profiles of school children in care with the neuropsychiatric community services in the Piedmont region: evidences for better caring and programming.

Purpose: In the Piedmont region, as in the rest of Italy, school integration of 'handicapped students' in regular classes, independently of the pathologies they are suffering from, involves almost the totality of students between the age of 3 and 14 and the majority of students between the age of 14 and 18. The responsibility to 'recognise the student as a handicapped person' is attributed to the regional public health system (Child Neuro-Psychiatry Services - CNPS). The information about the students is registered in the regional NPI.