ICD-11 classes
06 Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders
Neurodevelopmental disorders
6A03 — Developmental learning disorder

ICD-11 6A03 — Developmental learning disorder

Developmental learning disorder is characterised by significant and persistent difficulties in learning academic skills, which may include reading, writing, or arithmetic. The individual’s performance in the affected academic skill(s) is markedly below what would be expected for chronological age and general level of intellectual functioning, and results in significant impairment in the individual’s academic or occupational functioning. Developmental learning disorder first manifests when academic skills are taught during the early school years. Developmental learning disorder is not due to a disorder of intellectual development, sensory impairment (vision or hearing), neurological or motor disorder, lack of availability of education, lack of proficiency in the language of academic instruction, or psychosocial adversity.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

Diagnosis with code 6A03 contains 5 clarifying diagnoses:

1. 6A03.0 — Developmental learning disorder with impairment in reading
2. 6A03.1 — Developmental learning disorder with impairment in written expression
3. 6A03.2 — Developmental learning disorder with impairment in mathematics
4. 6A03.3 — Developmental learning disorder with other specified impairment of learning
5. 6A03.Z — Developmental learning disorder, unspecified