COGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phonological Awareness, Music Therapy, Ben Goldacre
22 Aug 2018
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Unexplained disorder -> normal intelligence, no known physiological psychological reason. They can learn other skills perfectly well. General definition -> whereby a person has unusual difficulty or unexplained difficulty in learning how to understand or express their own spoken language. Big overlap between the symptoms of dyslexia -> 50% overlap -> half the children with specific language impairment also have reading problems. There are also children who have specific deficits. Quite common -> 5% of the population; significant difficulty. Not very known -> hidden disorder -> easy to explain; alternative explanations. Unexplained specific difficulty in learning to understand (receptive language) and/ or speak (cid:894)e(cid:454)pressi(cid:448)e la(cid:374)guage(cid:895) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e la(cid:374)guage. Typical non-verbal intelligence -> have the ability to learn new skills. Grown up in a normal language environment. Depends on how it is diagnosed and how it is defined. 5% of people have a significant difficulty in learning to understand or speak their own language.
