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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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Learning Disabilities: An Overview [PDF]

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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Learning Disabilities: An Overview

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
The expression "learning disabilities" is widely used and easily understood, but it may be applied to various handicaps. The author discusses the details of one particular handicap—reading disability—with implications that apply to the whole group in general.
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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.
Sunil Karande, Shubhangi Upadhye, Sarika Kalantre, Sanjeev R. Ahuja, Madhuri Kulkarni   +4 more
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Specific learning disabilities [PDF]

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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Pica with Learning Disability

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2002
In patients with learning disabilities, behaviour that is potentially self-injurious poses a formidable challenge. A multidisciplinary approach may be the first strategy.
Brian Fitzgerald, Pardeep Grewal
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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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Children with learning disabilities

Pediatric Anesthesia, 2008
SummaryChildren with learning disabilities can present numerous challenges in the acute hospital setting. This review article examines the causes and presentations of learning disability, and considers some of the management strategies employed when these children present for surgery.
Simon Courtman, D. Mumby
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Cancer and learning disability

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 1997
AbstractThis study was performed in order to complete a 60‐year survey of the rate of deaths from cancer in a group of people with a learning disability. It was carried out on an in‐patient population, and information was obtained from hospital records of deaths and patient medical notes. During the 10–year period studied, 13.6% of all deaths were from
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Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1983
The approach to the child with dyslexia and learning disorders is multidisciplinary. The pediatrician can act as a guide for educators and should recognize the importance of early diagnosis and provide appropriate referral for the child and counselling for the parents.
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