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The study aimed to identify students with learning disabilities, their preferred learning styles, and their relationship to some variables. The study sample consisted of (184) seventh-grade students, distributed among (45) students with learning difficulties and (139) ordinary students. To achieve the objective of the study, the Washington scale was applied to the study sample, and the learning styles scale was used to determine the preferred learning styles according to the variables of gender and academic achievement among students with learning disabilities and among ordinary students. The results also showed that the presence of learning disabilities could predict the preferred learning style according to gender and academic achievement, as male students with learning disabilities who prefer the auditory learning style were able to obtain good academic achievement. In contrast, the female students who had learning disabilities and preferred the kinesthetic learning style were able to have good academic achievement. (Published abstract)