Accelerations Educational Software Autism Intensive Education Good News: Individuals usually makes dramatic improvements with proper intervention Brain is very adaptive with intensity and duration of treatment “Rewiring Brain” Without Intensive Intervention ~80% of moderately to severely impaired individuals wo...
What health conditions are commonly found in people with a learning disability and/or autism? 'Many people with profound and multiple learning disabilities also have lots of physical conditions,' says learning disability nurse Gerard Wainwright, who works in West Yorkshire. 'We see things like ...
Autism spectrum disorder(ASD) is not a learning disability, but it can affect learning — in part because autism can affect language skills, both when listening and speaking. The term “learning disability” is an umbrella term encompassing a number of different problems with learning — most oft...
He also questioned whether mainstream hospitals recognise the needs of people with autism and learning disabilities. In an interview with theHealth Service Journal, Lelliott said there is a problem with the “profile that learning disability services have and there is even more of a problem with t...
of several different genetic and other etiologies that end with abnormal brain wiring. FXS is the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability; characterized by the presence of abnormal patterns of neural “wiring” or connectivity that leads to ASD ...
Outside of COVID-19, if learning disability issues hit the headlines, they usually reinforce stereotypes about “vulnerable people” unable to fend for themselves. And when a story makes the media, it rarely includes direct words from someone with a learning disability. This is the reason for ...
Accessible summary: This paper looks at the friendships of Ben, (not his real name), a 10-year-old boy with autism and learning disabilities, in his mainstream school. Ben was able to name his friends and showed that he understood some important things about friendship. Adults in the ...
the title is the educational equivalent of the more familiar health service diagnosis of 'learning disabilities'. She helpfully unpacks the misunderstanding about the relationship between learning disability and autism, although nurses and doctors may be perplexed by the use of the term 'dual ...
Correlates of overachievement (achievement test scores ≥ 1 SD above IQ), nondiscrepant achievement, and learning disability (LD; achievement ≥ 1 SD below IQ) were analyzed in 1,543 children (739 ADHD, 285 autism, and 519 general population), 6–16years of age. Significant correlates of ...
Rare familial 16q21 microdeletions under a linkage peak implicate cadherin 8 (CDH8) in susceptibility to autism and learning disability. J Med Genet 2011;48:48–54. Article CAS Google Scholar Volkmar F, Siegel M, Woodbury-Smith M, King B, McCracken J, State M ; American Academy of Child...