learning disorder


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Synonyms for learning disorder

a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills

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Dyslexia is a learning disorder for which approximately 5-6 percent of elementary and secondary school students receive special accommodations in the classroom.
In the comparison between GII and GIII in the saccadic eye movement tests compared to optokinetic nystagmus tests, there was no significant difference, except for the latency of the saccadic movement of the left eye, which had the longest latency in the group with learning disorder (Table 4).
Psychological co-morbidity in children with specific learning disorders. J Fam Med Prim Care 2015;4:21-5.
The parents and teachers of the students were asked to fill in this form together with Specific Learning Disability Evaluation Scale and Learning Disorder Symptom Screening Scale (teacher and parent forms).
Specific learning disorders (SLD) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that present with significant difficulty and underachievement in areas of reading, writing and mathematics not in keeping with the child's overall achievement level.
Parents who feel their child may struggle socially, learn differently or have a specific learning disorder, should consider schools that offer a variety of enrichment programs.
Too often, one or more of these children's health, developmental, social-emotional, or learning needs are overlooked, or they receive an inappropriate mental health, developmental, and/or learning disorder diagnosis.
Non verbal learning disorder is a neurological disorder which originates in the right half of the brain, causing problems with visual-spatial, organisational, evaluative, and holistic processing functions.
Experts claimed that 25 percent of adolescents in Beirut suffer from an emotional, behavioral or learning disorder, but only 6 percent of those requiring treatment currently receive it.
Learning disorder is a general term which signifies a group of heterogeneous disorders in the form of listening, speaking, reading, writing and calculation problems.
a) the child's cognition & are NOT affected due to the neurological disorder and the child has no intellectual deficits or learning disorder.
Some 15 million young people in the United States have a psychiatric or learning disorder, and less than half of them will receive adequate treatment.
"Does your patient have a psychiatric illness or nonverbal learning disorder?" (Current Psychiatry, May 2011, p.
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