PSYC3308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Procedural Knowledge, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia
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Social (pragmatic) comm disorder: persistent difficulties in social use of verbal & non-verbal comm as manifest in. Deficits in using comm for social purposes. Impairment of ability to change comm to match context. Difficulties understanding non-literal meanings: deficits results in functional limitations in effective comm, social participation, acad/occupational performance, onset. Deficits may not fully manifest until social comm demands exceeds limited capacities: exclusionary conditions & diagnoses. Symptoms not attributable to low abilities in domains of grammar. Not better explained by other psychological / mental / medical problems. Reading (dyslexia) / written expression (dysgraphia: difficulty automatically recognizing simple words, slow decoding of single words requiring substantial effort, probs with basic reading, compre, spelling, written expression. Inability to distinguish sounds in spoken words: cell abnormalities in left hemisphere, 60% heritable, lower activation in left hemisphere, boys > girls, high comordity with adhd (30-70%)
