This report, one of a series of supplementary reports to The same as you? review of services for people with learning disabilities 1 focuses on improving services and supports for children and young people with learning disabilities and with autism spectrum disorder in Scotland. . . . In The same as you? report, the definition of learning disability is 'a significant lifelong condition which has three facets: reduced ability to understand new or complex information or to learn new skills; reduced ability to cope independently; and a condition which started before adulthood (before the age of 18) with a lasting effect on the individual's development'