PSY 30312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Phonological Awareness, Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Subitizing
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Chapter 7: communication and learning disorders: difficulties do not stem from a single area of the brain, but rather from difficulties in bringing information from various brain regions together so that information can be integrated and understood. May be prenatal disturbances: two distinguishable types of children with reading disorders: Children who are accuracy improved they learn in ways that compensate for their reading difficulties and they improve over time. ** both of these types of kids have comparable reading skills and socioeconomic status when they begin school, but by the time they are young adults, the accuracy-improved readers show better cognitive ability ** Compensatory factors may be genetically based, so the child can improve with maturity, but in persistently poor readers, they may face greater environmental challenges (poverty and inequality) that reduce reading opportunities: genetic and constitutional factors: More likely to have a parent with a related problem if child has an sld.
