FC editorial staff
The number of diagnoses for students suffering from specific learning disorders (DSA) increases in Italy. To certify it are the latest data made available by the Ministry of Education and merit with the publication The main data relating to pupils with disabilities and with DSA and relating to the school years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023In fact, published in September 2024
At the total of the schools – between state, equal and non -equal – pupils with DSA, are 354,569 out of a total of 5,909,071 students. Of these, 49,418 brake the primary and correspond to a percentage of 3.2% out of a total of 1,526,367 pupils. 112.210 attend secondary secondary, 6.7% out of a total of 1,667,818 pupils, and 192,941 secondary secondary, equal to 7.1% out of a total of 2,714,886 pupils. 90.3% of pupils with DSA attend state schools while 9.7% non -state management schools; Of these 6.8% of equal schools and 2.9% non -equal schools enrolled in the register.
The most diagnosed disorders are those of dyslexia (36%), followed by dysorthography disorders with 23%, by disorders of discalculia and dysgraphia, respectively with 21.5% and 19.5% of the total. “It is now known that, despite the specific learning disorders are generally diagnosed after the normal process of teaching reading and writing skills (second class of primary school) and calculation (third class of primary school) is finished, it is possible that the first signals of the presence of learning disorder are found, through the administration of specific tests in healthcare structures, already in the preschool age when these disorders are not yet completely And they are not officially diagnosed and recognized », explains the ministry.
In the two -year period considered the number of certifications recorded in the regions of the North West is greater in percentage terms compared to what is recorded for the other areas of the country. For the regions of the South, the percentage is, however, extremely contained, equal on average to 2.8%. Finally, the Ministry report is always to say it, In the last 9 years there has been an increase in the number of certifications for each type of disorder: Dyslexia certifications have risen from about 94 thousand to over 204 thousand, dysgraphia certifications from 30 to 111 thousand units. The number of pupils with dysorthography also increased considerably, going from about 37 to 131 thousand and pupils with discalculia from 33 to 122 thousand.
