Learning disability
Learning disabilities are due to genetic and/or neurobiological factors that alter brain functioning in a manner which affects one or more cognitive processes related to learning. These processing problems can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing and/or math.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W114
Diagnosis: Learning Disability-Learning Disorder
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Age Onset:
Brain Area: brain operates more slowly; heredity and genetics, family poverty
Symptoms: Differing ability to speak, liten, read, write, spell, reason, organize information and do math. Usually average or higher intelligence.
Progression:
Causes: Low expectations by parents, teachers or others may stigmatize and worsen the problems. Self-esteem may be built aside of school.
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Therapies: Schools are challenged by the mental difficulties many children go through. This is even more-prevalent with second-languages.
Youtube Video: Understanding Learning Disabilities
Amazon or Library Book: Learning Disabilities
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Support Group: understood.org; 516-654-7684
(Non-profit for helping those with learning challenges.)
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- Use of implementation strategies to promote the uptake of knee osteoarthritis practice guidelines and improve patient outcomes: A Systematic Reviewby Michelle M Ramirez on May 6, 2024
CONCLUSION: Implementation strategies have the potential to impact clinician uptake of CPG's and patient reported outcomes (PROs). The implementation context, using an active learning strategy with a patient partner, restructuring funding models, and integrating taxonomies to tailor multifaceted strategies should be prioritized. Further experimental research is recommended to determine which implementation strategies are most effective.
- A Semiparametric Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach to Characterize Decision Making for Mental Disordersby Xingche Guo on May 6, 2024
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability-adjusted life years. Emerging evidence indicates the presence of reward processing abnormalities in MDD. An important scientific question is whether the abnormalities are due to reduced sensitivity to received rewards or reduced learning ability. Motivated by the probabilistic reward task (PRT) experiment in the EMBARC study, we propose a semiparametric inverse reinforcement learning (RL) approach to characterize the...
- Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemicby Sue Caton on May 6, 2024
Having a disability, in particular, an intellectual disability, is associated with Internet non-use. This article explores how people with intellectual disabilities used the Internet across the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic. In April to May 2021, 571 adults with intellectual disabilities were interviewed. Participants most commonly used the Internet for being with family and friends, social media or doing online activities with other people. People who lived with family were the...
- Bayesian modelling disentangles language versus executive control disruption in strokeby Gesa Hartwigsen on May 6, 2024
Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Incurred brain damage can disrupt cognition, often with persisting deficits in language and executive capacities. Yet, despite their clinical relevance, the commonalities and differences between language versus executive control impairments remain under-specified. To fill this gap, we tailored a Bayesian hierarchical modelling solution in a largest-of-its-kind cohort (1080 patients with stroke) to deconvolve language and executive...