PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stuttering, Differential Diagnosis, Fender Wide Range

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4105
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Plenty of comorbidities and other disorders that affect ld. What does it mean to be substantially & quantifiable below : bell curve, 2 standard deviations or 2 grade levels below the average (the 50% line on the curve) Specific learning disorder: reading: deficits in: Dsm-5 diagnostic code 315. 00: difficulties include. Sight reading (whole word short at once) Transpositions (switching letters within words or words within a sentence) Decoding (difficulty breaking wording down into syllables: dyslexia. Pattern of learning difficulties characterized by problems with accurate or fluent word recognition, poor decoding, and poor spelling. Specific learning disorder: written expression: includes possible deficits in. Dsm-5 diagnostic code 315. 2: also includes difficulties with tasks that require hand/eye coordination (writing, tracing, drawing etc. ) Specific learning disorders: math: includes possible deficits in. Patter of learning difficulties characterized by problems processing numerical information, learning arithmetic facts and performing accurate or fluent calculations. Assessing sld"s: do not self assess, cognitive assessment.