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Learning disabilities

Nursing Standard, 1994
The West Cheshire NHS Trust has produced a video entitled Valued Lives. Presented in two parts, it aims to.
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Approach to learning disability

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2001
Learning disabilities (LD) is one of the important causes of poor academic performance in school going children. Learning disabilities are developmental disorders that usually manifest during the period of normal education. These disabilities create a significant gap between the true potential and day to day performance of an individual.
M, Kulkarni, S, Kalantre, S, Upadhye, S, Karande, S, Ahuja   +4 more
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Advances in learning disabilities

Current Opinion in Neurology, 1994
This review reports recent findings about diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, genetics, neuropsychological underpinnings, neuroanatomy, etiology, outcome, and treatment for the following: pervasive developmental disorder, the developmental language disorders, dyslexia, and dyscalculia.
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Specific learning disabilities

Bulletin of the Orton Society, 1977
Though specific learning disabilities have probably existed as long as human learning itself, they were "discovered" only at the turn of the 19th century, and have become a pressing social problem in the developed countries only since the 1950s. As the demands on education in the developed countries increase, so does the problem these disabilities ...
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The Otolaryngologist and Learning Disabilities

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1970
Learning disabilities, or perceptual defects resulting in the inability to perceive or classify various symbols, may involve many systems including the auditory pathways. Perceptually handicapped children are most often characterized by poor attention to auditory stimuli and limited auditory memory.
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Learning Disabilities: An Overview

Seminars in Neurology, 1991
Children with learning disabilities form a large pool of patients seen by neurologists for help in understanding the disability and deciding which forms of remediation are appropriate. Learning disabilities may accompany a large variety of other neurologic disabilities, but the usual child with such a problem is in excellent health.
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The Sociopsychometrics of Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
The Boston University (BU) case illustrates how the psychometrics of ability differences interact with the concept of learning disability and with the sodopolitics of schooling and society. It also illustrates that learning disabilities advocacy will not be on a sound footing as long as the field refuses to rid itself of its IQ fetishism, refuses to ...
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Learning Disabilities

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1982
J L, Culbertson, P C, Ferry
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Neurobiology of Learning Disabilities

Seminars in Speech and Language, 1996
Learning disabilities are the product of neurological damage which occurs during fetal development. The malformations produced are unique to each individual and do not resemble acquired neurological damage. Consequently, models of developmental disorders must be developed independently and cannot be based on acquired adult aphasia or dyslexia ...
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Mathematics for the Learning Disabled

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
Many learning disabled students would be able to learn the mathematical skills necessary for independent living if their mathematical curriculum would concentrate primarily on functional skills.
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