Evidence record

NHS England. Find out about the Learning Disability Register. Updated 12 August 2025.

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Source record

Source kind: authoritative guidance
Evidence model: Accepted legacy v0.1 embedded source
Accessed: 2026-08-12
Oracle last reviewed: 2026-08-12

Open source

Claims this source bears on

In current NHS England usage, learning disability involves developmental difficulty understanding or learning new information and skills together with reduced adaptive independence, and it is distinct from a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

Claim reference: learning-disability#learning-disability-claim-uk-definition · Confidence: high · Evidence role: Legacy source route — no v0.2 contribution role inferred

Evidence limitations

None recorded.

Claim uncertainty

How should UK learning disability, international intellectual disability and WHO disorders-of-intellectual-development terminology be bridged without claiming they are identical in every legal, clinical and service context?
How should intellectual and adaptive-functioning assessment be explained without turning scores into a complete account of a person?

International clinical and research sources use related terminology including intellectual disability, while WHO ICD-11 uses the diagnostic-group wording disorders of intellectual development; the labels substantially overlap but are not assumed to be legally or operationally identical in every system.

Claim reference: learning-disability#learning-disability-claim-international-terms · Confidence: moderate · Evidence role: Legacy source route — no v0.2 contribution role inferred

Evidence limitations

None recorded.

Claim uncertainty

How should UK learning disability, international intellectual disability and WHO disorders-of-intellectual-development terminology be bridged without claiming they are identical in every legal, clinical and service context?

A learning-disability diagnosis can be relevant to healthcare access and reasonable adjustments, but the diagnosis alone does not specify an individual person's communication or support needs.

Claim reference: learning-disability#learning-disability-claim-adjustments · Confidence: moderate · Evidence role: Legacy source route — no v0.2 contribution role inferred

Evidence limitations

None recorded.

Claim uncertainty

How should intellectual and adaptive-functioning assessment be explained without turning scores into a complete account of a person?
How can ND Oracle represent people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, non-speaking people and people needing substantial support without building the concept only around the most independently communicating voices?

Funding and conflicts

None recorded.

Evidence projection provenance

Evidence synthesis accepted by the owner on 2026-08-12 and promoted from frozen Batch A candidate blob a06995d02e7acf4022ff31069ea5bc7fc6da68fe; candidate history remains preserved.

Public projection ID: legacy-learning-disability-learning-disability-source-nhs-england