A Neurodevelopmental Approach to Specific Learning Disorders. Edited by Kingsley Whitmore, Hilary Hart, Guy Willems. London: Mac Keith Press, distributed by Cambridge University Press. 1999, pp 340, £45.00, US$69.95. ISBN 1 89868 11 5

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 503-503
Author(s):  
Catherine D DeAngelis
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Visser ◽  
Julia Kalmar ◽  
Janosch Linkersdörfer ◽  
Ruth Görgen ◽  
Josefine Rothe ◽  
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Author(s):  
Noreena Kausar ◽  
Nadia Farhat ◽  
Fauzia Maqsood ◽  
Hafsa Qurban ◽  
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Abstract Objective: To examine the frequency of specific learning disorder (SLD) among primary school children of Sarai Alamgir, Pakistan. Methods: The current cross-sectional study was conducted from January to July 2018 in Sarai Alamgir. Multistage stratified sampling technique was used to select the sample from target population (N=914) of school children studying in 3rd and 4th class of six primary schoolsof Sarai Alamgir, Pakistan.Sample of n=837 children was selected through the Taro Yamane formula. Structured Clinical Diagnostic Interviews based on DSM-V (APA, 2013) diagnostic criteria of specific learning disorder were used to collect data. Children were approached in their classes. Screening tool was applied on all selected children to screen out the vulnerable cases. After screening the vulnerable cases, diagnostic criteria of different specific learning disorders were applied on all vulnerable cases. The frequencies and percentages were analyzed to see the frequency  of learning disorder among children. Results:Findings indicate that 174 (20.7%) children were vulnerable to specific learning disorders out of sample of 837 children. Total 13 (7.5%) children were diagnosed as suffering from different specific learning disorders from vulnerable participants. From vulnerable cases, 1(7.7%) childfulfilled the diagnostic criteria of reading impairment, 3 (23.1%) were diagnosed with mathematics impairment, 4 (30.8%) with multiple impairments in mathematics and writing, 1 (7.7%) with multiple impairments in mathematics and reading, 1 (7.7%) with multiple impairments in reading and writing, and 3 (23.1%) children were diagnosed as suffering from multiple impairments in mathematics, reading and writing. Continuous...


2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 13 ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Riva ◽  
Renata Nacinovich ◽  
Nadia Bertuletti ◽  
Valentina Montrasi ◽  
Sara Marchetti ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Riva ◽  
Alessandro Musetti ◽  
Monica Bomba ◽  
Lorenzo Milani ◽  
Valentina Montrasi ◽  
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand the characteristics of the language-related skills of bilingual children with specific learning disorders (SLD). The aim is achieved by analyzing language-related skills in a sample of bilingual (Italian plus another language) and Italian monolingual children, with and without SLD.Patients and methods: A total of 72 minors aged between 9 and 11 were recruited and divided into four groups: 18 Italian monolingual children with SLD, 18 bilingual children with SLD, 18 Italian monolingual children without SLD, and 18 bilingual children without SLD. Each child underwent tests to evaluate different aspects of language skills: lexical and grammar, metalanguage and executive functions.Results: With regard to lexical and grammatical skills, the conditions of SLD and bilingualism both impact naming in terms of total number of errors for words with low frequency of use, while the condition of SLD has an effect on semantic errors for words with low frequency of use. The condition of bilingualism impacts on the total errors for words with high frequency of use and on circumlocution-type errors for words with low frequency of use. There were significant effects of bilingualism and SLD on the metalinguistic test for understanding implicit meaning, and an impact of SLD on phonological awareness was also found.Conclusion: The results suggest that both SLD and bilingualism have an effect on some lexical skills, in particular for words with low frequency of use. Both conditions, bilingualism and SLD, seem to impact on metalinguistic abilities that depend on lexical knowledge. These findings reinforce the importance of improving understanding of the neuropsychological profile of bilingual children with SLD.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 958-958
Author(s):  
James J. A. Cavanaugh

In The Disabled Learner editors Satz and Ross present a potpourri of articles previously delivered at a conference held to acquaint physicians, educators and psychologists with new basic information in the field of learning disorders and to review new methods of intervention. The book falls far short of this goal. The biology is naive, the language development section is uninformed, or at least systematically ignores a broad literature in this discipline, and the chapters that deal with specific learning disability and developmental dyslexia are unrewarding.


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