PSY E245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Leo Kanner, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Intellectual Disability
Document Summary
Dyslexia and congenital word blindness were terms used for the inability to read. Reading disorders are more often found in boys. Difficulties learning and using academic skills, 6 months, despite provision of interventions that target those difficulties. Affected kills are substantially below those expected for age. Difficulties are not accounted for by other intellectual disabilities, organic nature. Typically found with reading or mathematics impairment. Controversy regarding differences between this and asperger disorder. Deficits in tactile perception, psychomotor coordination and visual spatial organization. Poor nonverbal problem solving, sense of time, language pragmatics. Impairments in one of three brain subsystems: ventral, dorsal temporoparietal, and inferior frontal gyrus. Posterior parietal areas of the brain may be affected. Many children with learning disabilities cannot understand. Reading strategies are taught to high risk children. Non-responders go to second tier of intensive reading remediation. Little research was done prior to the 1800"s. School wasn"t mandatory yet so there was no standard for comparison.
