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A CROSS‐CULTURAL STUDY OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS ABOUT LEARNING DISABILITY (MENTAL HANDICAP)

, 2010
The literature suggests that Asian families have attitudes and beliefs about learning disability (mental handicap) which differ from those of white British families, and that these attitudes may have an influence on service utilisation.
I. Fatimilehin, Zenobia Nadirshaw
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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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Dietary omega-3 fatty acids normalize BDNF levels, reduce oxidative damage, and counteract learning disability after traumatic brain injury in rats.

Journal of Neurotrauma, 2004
Omega-3 fatty acids (i.e., docosahexaenoic acid; DHA) regulate signal transduction and gene expression, and protect neurons from death. In this study we examined the capacity of dietary omega3 fatty acids supplementation to help the brain to cope with ...
Aiguo Wu, Z. Ying, F. Gomez-Pinilla
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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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Learning Disabilities

Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2018
Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, Vol 11 No 3 (1977)
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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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