Sentences with phrase «minimal brain dysfunction»

Minimal Brain Dysfunction in children (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Monograph No. 3)

In fact, for many years ADHD was called «minimal brain damage» or «minimal brain dysfunction.»

In the 1950s and»60s the terms for it were minimal brain damage, Strauss Syndrome, hyperkinetic impulse disorder, minimal brain dysfunction, and hyperkinetic reaction of childhood.

They include conditions which have been referred to as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia, etc... they do not include learning problems which are due primarily to visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, to mental retardation, emotional disturbance or to environmental deprivation.»

The case was that of a 14 yr old boy «bright and intelligent... quick at games and in no way inferior to others of his age [except for] his inability to learn to read» The phrase «learning disability» was coined here in Chicago in 1963 by Kirk Old Ideas About Learning Disability Children with Learning Disabilities used to be diagnosed with «minimal brain dysfunction.»

Children with Learning Disabilities used to be diagnosed with «minimal brain dysfunction.»

He was a psychologist who had worked extensively with parents of children who had «minimal brain dysfunction,» or «strephosymbolia» (they reversed and made other errors in their letters).

Psychosocial history, minimal brain dysfunction and differential drinking patterns of male alcoholics

Minimal brain dysfunction was formally defined in 1966 by Samuel Clements as a combination of average or above average intelligence with certain mild to severe learning or behavioral disabilities characterizing deviant functioning of the central nervous system.