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Specific Learning Disabilities

2018
Abstract Specific learning disability is a common neurodevelopmental disorder affecting about 5–8% of the school-aged population. A key concept in specific learning disabilities is unexpected low achievement. An individual whose achievement in reading, math, or writing is both low and less than what would be expected based on ...
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Specific Learning Disabilities

Clinical Pediatrics, 1967
R L, Clemmens, K, Glaser
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Specific Learning Disability: A Hidden Disability

2019
The chapter ‘Specific Learning Disability: A Hidden Disability’ purports to educate the reader about one of the high incidence disabilities, i.e. specific learning disability (SLD). In the chapter, attempts are made to bring about understanding of the concept of SLD, its characteristics and types.
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Children with Specific Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test protocols of 82 elementary school boys with learning disabilities were scored for developmental errors using the Koppitz system. Sixty-seven % of the children with learning disabilites (CLD), as compared with only 44% of a group of 34 controls, made more errors than the mean for children of equivalent ages in ...
Peggy T. Ackerman, John E. Peters, Roscoe A. Dykman   +2 more
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Specific Learning Disabilities: A Neuropsychological Perspective

International Journal of Neuroscience, 1997
A dispersion in cognitive abilities is expected in normal populations. Specific learning disabilities would represent an extreme polarity in a continuum of normal cognitive dispersion. Three propositions relative to learning disabilities are advanced in the present paper.
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Diagnosing Specific Learning Disabilities

2014
Abstract The purpose of the evaluation is to confirm a possible diagnosis of specific learning disability (SLD), identification of a possible behavioral comorbidity, and finding an etiology for the condition. Comorbidity between SLD and other behavioral disorders, including pervasive developmental disorder and attention deficit ...
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Success despite specific learning disabilities

Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006
Abstract Proactive coping is known to be a key resource for life success by adults who have specific learning disabilities. This paper describes two programs that were trialled as part of doctoral research. These were a coping program and a teacher feedback intervention designed to increase proactive coping for adolescent students with specific ...
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Specific Learning Disabilities Program

Exceptional Children, 1976
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SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES

The Slow Learning Child, 1971
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Treatment of Specific Learning Disabilities

2014
Abstract Treatment of medical conditions follows, in general, one of a number of patterns. One pattern is prevention—taking measures to prevent the condition from happening. A second pattern is a curative treatment that will eradicate the condition.
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