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Ciocci, Sandra R. – 2002
This digest presents an overview of children with auditory processing disorders (APDs), children who can typically hear information but have difficulty attending to, storing, locating, retrieving, and/or clarifying that information to make it useful for academic and social purposes. The digest begins by describing central auditory processing and…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Classroom Environment
Brown, Rebecca; Ganzglass, Evelyn – 1998
This issue brief examines strategies that states can use to help welfare recipients with learning disabilities move toward self-sufficiency within the context of welfare reform. It defines a learning disability, explains approaches to identifying and assessing undiagnosed learning disabilities, and suggests ways to secure accommodations for…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Clinical Diagnosis, Educational Legislation
PASCH, DOROTHY F.; AND OTHERS – 1968
A TITLE III PROJECT OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965, THE CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT-PLACEMENT-INSTRUCTION CENTER (CAPIC) STUDIES AND TREATS CHILDREN WHO MANIFEST LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS WITH NO RECOGNIZABLE CAUSES. THE REPORT, A LOG OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON DURING THE PLANNING PERIOD, PRESENTS DEFINITIONS OF 24…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Education Service Centers, Educational Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Research
Wolf, James M., Ed.; Anderson, Robert M., Ed. – 1969
Articles presented in the area of the medical and educational challenge of the multiply handicapped child are an overview of the problem, the increasing challenge, congenital malformations, children whose mothers had rubella, prematurity and deafness, the epidemiology of reproductive casualty, and new education for old problems. Discussions of…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Congenital Impairments
Guyer, Barbara P. – 1997
This book tells the stories of eight people with above average to highly gifted levels of intellect, who also have significant, previously unrecognized and undiagnosed, learning disabilities. Their discovery of their true abilities and gifts after years of humiliation within the educational system and the trials of daily life is detailed. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attention Deficit Disorders, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Semmel, Melvyn I.; And Others – 1968
Methods to evaluate central hearing deficiencies and to localize brain damage are reviewed beginning with Bocca who showed that patients with temporal lobe tumors made significantly lower discrimination scores in the ear opposite the tumor when speech signals were distorted. Tests were devised to attempt to pinpoint brain damage on the basis of…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests
Thompson, Sue – 1997
This manual discusses the characteristics of students with nonverbal learning disorders (NLD) and provides strategies to help students with NLD in the home and classroom environment. It begins by describing the symptoms of NLD, including lack of coordination, faulty spatial perceptions, lack of ability to comprehend nonverbal communication,…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Adults, Child Rearing, Clinical Diagnosis
Hagerman, Randi Jenssen, Ed.; McKenzie, Pamela, Ed. – 1992
This proceedings document presents the texts or summaries of 52 papers given at a 1992 conference on Fragile X syndrome. Preliminary information includes names and institutional affiliations of conference faculty, information about the National Fragile X Foundation, awards presented at the conference, and a list of resource centers (by state).…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Congenital Impairments, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Methods
Kupperman, Phyllis; Bligh, Sally; Barouski, Kathy – 1998
This paper provides an overview of hyperlexia, a condition found in children who have precocious reading skills accompanied by significant problems in language, learning, and social skills. These children are described as having superior auditory and visual memory but seem to have better memory for isolated words than words recalled in context.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Clinical Diagnosis
Muma, John R. – 1978
Written primarily for clinicians who have interests in language assessment and intervention techniques, this book is intended for the following clinical specialties: speech pathology, deaf education, mental retardation, reading disabilities, language arts, special education, learning disabilities, and school psychology. The book provides an…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Deafness
Haywood, H. Carl, Ed. – 1968
The product of a professional workshop, 10 papers discuss brain damage. An introduction to clinical neuropsychology is presented by H. Carl Haywood. A section on neurological foundations includes papers on the organization of the central nervous system by Jack T. Tapp and Lance L. Simpson, on epilepsy by Angela T. Folsom, and on organic language…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Case Records, Cerebral Dominance, Clinical Diagnosis
Pliszka, Steven R.; Carlson, Caryn L.; Swanson, James M. – 1999
This book is designed to help clinicians assess and treat children or adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder who also present other disabilities. Major comorbidities are described in depth and empirically grounded guidelines are presented for evaluation and treatment. Part 1 provides an overview of issues in comorbidity,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders
Grover, Edward C.; Todd, Joseph H. – 1967
A definition of learning disorders, medical observations, diagnostic terms, the role of medication, and psychological implications and descriptions are provided. The philosophy and variations of educational programs for the neurologically handicapped are described; facets of the special class program considered are the instructional program,…
Descriptors: Administration, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Design
Boise City Independent School District, ID. – 1972
Terminally evaluated was a 3-year (1969-1972) Title III Idaho project to develop an auditory perceptual and language development training program involving the screening of 657 children in grades 1 and 2 in four schools and a first grade demonstration class for 192 perceptually handicapped children. Of 346 children identified to have auditory…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Accardo, Pasquale – 1996
This paper reviews the state of the art concerning how learning disabilities (LD) are defined; how students with LD and their families are affected; and how LD can be addressed by interdisciplinary teams of health and education professionals. The emphasis is on dispelling the myth that children with LD are not at serious risk for adverse…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Definitions, Drug Therapy
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