AC-ACLD/ An Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, Inc. is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
We are a not-for-profit, private, charitable educational organization.
AC-ACLD has been providing direct services to individuals with Specific Learning Disabilities since 1966.
MISSION
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for children and adults with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and related neurobiological disorders by facilitating self-sufficiency and financial independence.
AC-ACLD'S SPECIFIC GOALS:
* Increase public awareness of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD)
as significant,
lifelong disorders that can be successfully treated
* Provide accessible,
high-quality, cost-effective diagnostic, educational,
vocational and consultation
services
* Furnish information, referral and advocacy assistance to
individuals
with SLD and their families
* Enhance the work, educational, social and leisure
time
opportunities for individuals with SLD
* Encourage
research on the
causes and treatment of SLD