Is it common for autistic people to have learning disability?

My son has autism. He is 7, and still not speaking yet. Since he is not yet verbal learning is indeed more of a challenge for him. His teachers use unconventional techniques to teach him. He does understand most verbal commands and I believe he knows a lot more than people would think, but we won't have a good grasp until he starts speaking.

I have an autistic friend (15 years old now) and he studies in the normal school with me, we are classmates his ability to learn in class is well he does the homework well, his math is good, but he gets difficult when he makes something crafty I think autistic people have difficulty to learn about new things, but they seem brave, and have strong will

I think that it is pretty common that those on the autistic spectrum have a learning disability. There is definately a link between the two. My father is asperger's. He is hyperlexic, gifted, and has nonverbal learning disability He learns everything superfast My brother is PDD.NOS. He is gifted He learns some things super fast, others at an average pace My son is PDD.NOS. We suspect that he has a learning disability. His psychoeducational test scores were all over the place. He is being evaluated in 2 weeks. We are looking into dyslexia (for reading) and dyspraxia. Possibly he has CAPD central auditory processing disorder or a language processing disorder I do not think that he has NVLD non verbal learning disability, or discalcula My PDD.NOS son learns almost at pace with typical peers, to being a little behind typical peers. Some things (like reading) take longer for him, other things he just knows how to do without pre-teaching. The areas he excels at involve rote memory, and perceptive reasoning (things that aren't taught)

My only child was born with Autism and was also born with Mental Retardation. I read on one person's personal website that between 75% and 90% of all people with Autism have mental retardation! I highly disagree with the information! The reason why I am saying this is because there are people who are considered be severely affected with Autism but yet they are very intellegent and can hold extremely intellegent conversations with other people. One such person is Amanda Baggs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc Amanda Baggs edited and produced the video. There is a High Functioning Autism (HFA) called Asperger's Syndrome (AS). There is a condition called "Savant Syndrome" which is an exceptional skill in an area. It is called a "Splinter Skill".

My brother is 18 now. Go him! :D But anyways, yes they can...because he does slightly. Although they might be weak in alot of things, they will be VERY strong in others. Like, my brother he is a fricking basketball genius. If you name any team, he can tell you every player on the team, and tell you what he is good at. He can also tell you how many rings(championships) a team has won. He is also very midly smart in other sports, basically all of them. He is so awesome, love him to death. (:

I'm just guessing here, but i think it is fairly common for people who have autism to also have a learning disability that goes along with it. In fact most people with one learning disability tend to have others as well, i have ADD but also have motor dyspraxa and discalculi.

Children with autism can have other learning disabilities as well, varying from mild to severe learning difficulties, speech & language difficulties, behavioural & social difficulties that impact on their capacity to learn as well as other diagnoses such as ADD or ADHD. I've also come across children who have multiple diagnoses of Autism & Cerebral Palsy.

While there is no current research that supports a higher level of learning disabilities when there is an exsisting diagnosis of autism, it is not unusual for there to be learing issues with students on the spectrum.

They can have a learning disablity, but in some areas they can also be geniuses.