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| Title: | Learning Disabilities
: New Research |
| Author: | Soren V Randall (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1594549907 : 9781594549908 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 243 |
| Weight: | .713 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - April 2006 |
| List Price: | 52.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Teaching of learning disabled persons: Medical research: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology: Child & developmental psychology |
A learning disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that affects the brain’s ability to receive, process, store and respond to information. The term learning disability is used to describe the seeming unexplained difficulty a person of at least average intelligence has in acquiring basic academic skills. These skills are essential for success at school and work and for coping with life in general. LD is not a single disorder. It is a term that refers to a group of disorders. LD is a disorder that affects people’s ability to either interpret what they see and hear to link information from different parts of the brain. These limitations can show up in many ways: as specific difficulties with spoken and written language, co-ordination, self control or attention. Typical learning difficulties include dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia -- often complicated by associated disorders such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. This book brings together leading research in the field.
Preface; Cortical Asymmetry and Learning Efficiency: A Direction for the Rehabilitation Process; Focussing on Mathematical Disabilities: A Search for Definition, Classification and Assessment; Mathematical Disabilities in Genetic Syndromes: The Case of Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome; General Health and Associated Biochemistry in a Visual-Perceptual Subtype of Dyslexia; Learning Difficulties and Brain Tumour; The use of Psychotropic Drugs in Patients with Learning Disabilities and Epilepsy; Event-Related Brain Potentials During a Visual Continuous Performance Task in Groups with Reading Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Class-Wide Instructional Feedback: Improving Children's Academic Skill Development; Language Event-Related Potentials in Poor Readers; Early Detection of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Early Childhood Inventory-4 Screening in Mexican Pre-school Children; Index.
