FRHD 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Comorbidity, Invisible Disability, Assistive Technology
14 Oct 2016
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Affects how you take in and process information. People have normal intelligence solely affects learning. Difficulties in 1 or more cognitive processes: 50% of students receiving special education support have learning disabilities. A registered psychologist will perform an assessment to come up with the diagnosis of a learning disability school board will arrange for and pay for a private assessment. When children are i school, and they have been identified by the school, the. Private assessments can be purchased by parents they cost upwards of. Visual: impaired visual perception, figure-ground discrimination problems, reversals. Auditory: poor listening skills, poor auditory memory, speech problems, poor auditory sequencing. Motor: problems with eye-hand coordination, small muscle control problems, clumsiness. Organizational: poor ability to organize time and space, difficulty meeting deadlines, losing things. Conceptual: difficulty in judging non-verbal language, difficulty anticipating the future, unable to predict the consequences of actions, poor social skills and peer relations. Learning disabilities interfere with the acquisition and use of:
