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Learning Disabilities |
a. generic term
b. heterogeneous group of individuals w/ many individual diffs among this group c. disorder linked to CNS disorder |
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Learning Disabilities Differences |
a. listening comp
b. speaking c. reading d. writing e. reasoning/prob solving f. math skills g. social skills NB: significant diffs (relative to norm) in acquisition and use of these |
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Learning Disabilities (2) |
a. concomitant, handicapping probs are common but NOT causative - eg: mr, emotional disorder, hearing loss, visual impairment and cultural/linguistic diffs, ADHD, poor instructional history
b. unexpected difficulty relative to age and intellectual abilities c. not all lang disabilities are lang based! d. diff b/w verbal and nonverbal iq is freq but not req'd |
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Language Learning Disabilities |
a. LDs that primarily affect areas of lang learning (eg: reading, writing, spelling) are referred to as lang-learning disorders
b. LLDs are presumed to draw on underlying deficit in oral lang production/expressive lang and understanding/receptive lang b/c it will have ramifications on your ability to learn to read and write c. Evidence of history of lang difficulties d. Most students w/ lld have difficulties w/ reading |
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Reading Disabilities |
a. reading disorders are heterogeneous
b. one commonality is that we're pretty sure that underlying weaknesses in lang competencies are causal c. dyslexia and rd are terms that don't necessarily refer to same population - dyslexia is TYPE of rd |
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Dyslexia |
a. specific type of reading disability
b. poor word recognition/single word decoding skills (hallmark of dyslexia) and poor spelling |
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Dyslexia (2) |
a. arises from phonological deficit
b. poor phonological awareness skills (learning about sound system or lang = phonology) - can't divy up words into sounds that make them up c. poor phonological memory--> results in poor vocab. Can't retrieve info as easily d. poor at learning phonemic segmentation and phonological synthesis, hard using alphabetic principle to decode print e. trouble with these phonologically-based skills can lead to probs w/ reading comp (takes u so long to decode that by time you're done, the gist of what you're reading is lost) |
