Learning+Disabilities

LD

Dyspraxia is a developmental disability that effects a persons ability to coordinate certain purposeful movements and gestures, in the absence of other motor or sensory impairments like cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. || || A math disability-a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending mathmatics. It is akin to dyslexia and can include confusion about math symbols. Dyscalculia can also occure as the result of some types of breain injury. || || Is a difficulty or inability to retrieve the correct word from memory when it is needed. Dysnomia can affect speech skills, writing abilities, or both. When a child is having problems recalling words about daily life is when this becomes a medical condition. || || Its a neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements. It is a disorder of motor planning which may be acquired or developmental, but may not be caused by incoordination, sensory loss, or failure to comprehend simple commands. || ||
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 * Alberty, Judd S. || [|Dyspraxia]
 * Becker, Jamie L. || [|Dyscalculia]
 * Fiedler, Kayla A. || [|Dyslexia] is a learning disorder that manifests itself as a difficulty with reading, spelling and in some cases mathematics. It is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. It is estimated that dyslexia affects between 5% and 17% of the U.S. population. || [[image:dyslexia.jpg width="168" height="109"]] ||
 * Hanssen, Ashley A. || [|Hyperlexia]===Hyperlexia is a syndrome observed in children who have the following characteristics:===
 * A precocious ability to read words, far above what would be expected at their chronological age or an intense fascination with letters or numbers.
 * Significant difficulty in understanding verbal language
 * Abnormal social skills, difficulty in socializing and interacting appropriately with people || [[image:AGY2G7ZCASTWWS1CAMSA2WJCAZ60PJGCAKCHU4SCABYSHPACA7H3DBTCAHH490CCAJH5MMQCAYV2FBJCAULNBHYCAMA0P58CA6RD06WCA3I568VCAJ613U7CAGYX42QCAA2U8GXCAG1NOA8CADXAJSSCA5RV2TW.jpg width="208" height="158"]] ||
 * Hinsvark, Kayla J. || [|Dysnomia]:
 * Kenyon, Christina K. || [|Apraxia]
 * Lather, Christopher S. || [|Auditory Processing Disorder] -  auditory processing is a term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the sounds around you. The "disorder" part of auditory processing disorder means that something is adversely affecting the processing or interpretation of the information. || [[image:Auditory_crop380w.jpg width="152" height="100"]] ||

Nonverbal Learning Disability (also called Nonverbal Learning Disorder) is most often due to weak visual processing skills and often goes undiagnosed. || ||
 * Olson, Melissa R. || [|Visual Processing Disorders]-The inability for an individual to make proper sense of information taken in through the eyes. || [[image:visualprocessing.jpg]] ||
 * Quick, Shenoa J. || [|Nonverbal Learning Disorder] -
 * Steinback, Brittany L || [|Developmental Aphasia]- a primary delay or failure in aquiring language with a neurological basic for the language deficit. || [[image:http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/jt_attn.JPG width="95" height="59"]] ||
 * VanDenBerg, Molly C. || [|Attention Deficit Disorder]- A condition characterized by when a person is easily distracted and has difficulty staying focused on an individual activity for any period of time. ADD affects 3-5% of all students || [[image:ADD.jpg width="130" height="122"]] ||
 * Walther, Brian S. || Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ||  ||
 * Dr. [|Fiegen] || [|Dysgraphia] - is a deficiency in the ability to write by hand, regardless of the ability to read, not a result of intellectual impairment . || [[image:dysgraphia.gif width="234" height="168"]] ||
 * || Developmental Coordination Disorder ||  ||
 * || Developmental articulation disorder ||  ||
 * || Language-Based Learning Disabilities ||  ||
 * || Gerstmann's Syndrome ||  ||
 * || Developmental expressive language disorder ||  ||
 * || Developmental receptive language disorder ||  ||
 * || Executive Function ||  ||