SHORT REPORT Examining the selection of university courses in young adults with learning disabilities Claudio Longobardi | Matteo A. Fabris | Manuela Mendola | Laura Elvira Prino Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Correspondence Mattteo Angelo Fabris, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Po 14, Turin, TO 10123, Italy. Email: matteoangelo.fabris@unito.it Present Address Laura Elvira Prino, Department of Philosophy and Educational Science, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. The literature contains a great deal of research on Specific Learning Disorders (SpLDs). However, almost all of the studies related to SpLDs deal with the difficulties that said disorders cause during childhood or adolescence. An interest in adults with SpLDs is only recent, especially in university students like those in this study. In Italy, research on SpLDs in higher education is rather limited. This study aims to rectify this lack of data by making a brief analysis of the data on SpLDs prevalence in higher education and of the courses chosen by university students with SpLDs. Our sample consisted of 585 students with SpLDs enrolled at 19 public universities that communicated the number of students who contacted their offices of service for students with SpLDs. The prevalence of students with SpLDs in the higher education populations we sample had a mean of 0.13% (SD = 0.11) and ranged from 0.03% to 0.48%. The data showed that the higher education faculties with the highest number of reported SpLDs students in our sample were Statistics, Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Education, and Architecture. It is important to analyse the trend in university enrolment of student with SpLDs to protect the right to education for people with SpLDs. KEYWORDS dyslexia, higher education, special needs, Specific Learning Disorder, young adult Received: 25 April 2015 Revised: 12 October 2018 Accepted: 4 February 2019 DOI: 10.1002/dys.1611 Dyslexia. 2019;1–6. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dys 1