he article discusses the effect of learning disability on the emotional development of a child. It also focuses on the impact of environment on his coping with learning disability. The stages of emotional growth proposed by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson has been used to describe an individual's stepwise development through the different ages. His theory maintained that if there is a significant problem in one stage, there will be a significant effect on subsequent stages. The article looks at learning disabilities in terms of emotional development and examines how psychosocial issues affect the child with a learning disability at each stage. The stages according to Eriksson are trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, adolescence, adulthood, and maturity. It has been shown how language-learning problems can affect the child's sense of his own competency and affect his interactions with others. The affect development of sense of worth and future security. Evaluation and treatment efforts must be directed toward psychosocial issues as well as medical and educational issues.