«It is this divide in language skills and use, which mirrors the opposite social profiles, that led us to explore how brains of individuals with Williams syndrome and autistic spectrum
disorders process language,» says Fishman.
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More studies are necessary to fully assess speech /
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The added stress of the speech /
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There, he worked with Annette Karmiloff - Smith, an expert in developmental neurocognition who had recently received a grant to study number
processing in children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic
disorder that can lead to a puzzling cognitive profile: a relative strength in
language coupled with severe deficiencies in visual - spatial cognition and number
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Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to
process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new
language to aging,
language disorders and hearing loss.
People with intermittent explosive
disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions of the brain associated with sensory input,
language processing and social interaction.
«Traditional ways we have of assessing kids can only tell you the end product of a very complicated
process,» says Courtenay Norbury, a professor of developmental
language and communication
disorders at University College London who has used Tobii eye - tracking technology to study children with
language development
disorders, including SLI and autism.
Children with SLI — also called developmental
language disorder — can hear just fine but have difficulty
processing the meaning of spoken words.
A new model of this reading
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processing rather than the visual system.
Rather than playing recordings for healthy babies, Partanen sees potential treatments for children at risk for dyslexia or auditory
processing disorders, if hearing certain sounds in pregnancy turns out to speed up
language learning — «but that's a big if.»
«This lack of synchronization with frontal regions in ASD — an impairment in brain connectivity — may lead to symptoms of the
disorder that involve
processes that require brain coordination between frontal and other areas, such as
language processing and social interaction,» Just explained.
Brainwave activity associated with
language processing differs sharply in two
disorders with opposite social profiles: autism and Williams syndrome.
LA JOLLA, CA — People with Williams syndrome — known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers —
process spoken
language differently from people with autism spectrum
disorders — characterized by social withdrawal and isolation — found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
He defined LD as «a retardation,
disorder, or delayed development in one or more of the
processes of speech,
language, reading, spelling, writing, or arithmetic resulting from a possible cerebral dysfunction and not from mental retardation, sensory deprivation, or cultural or instructional factors.»
According to the National Center of Learning Disabilities, a learning disability is «a
disorder in one or more of the basic psychological
processes involved in understanding or in using
language, spoken or written, which
disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations».
However there are some children who, despite adequate exposure to
language, still present with delayed
language skills; either because they have hearing problems or an underlying
disorder affecting the
processing of
language, or additional special educational needs.
Cambry has a
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During the assessment
process, examiners look for evidence of the
disorder and also rule out other factors that could be causing the student's reading and
language problems.
This study was funded by the Children's Foundation and involved measuring the relationship between brain
processing of speech sounds, nonverbal emotion recognition, and other social - emotional comprehension skills in both typically - developing children and children with a range of clinical diagnoses (e.g., ASD, ADHD, reading
disorders,
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Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological
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«Children with special learning disabilities exhibit a
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