Sentences with phrase «with learning deficits»

Many youngsters arrive in kindergarten with learning deficits.

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Working with children who are in deficit you really learn about it.

With reports on the thriving economy, the low taxes, the manageable deficit, the ability to make painful budget cuts — things are so good in Texas that even some California lawmakers want to learn the secrets to Perry's management of Lone Star success.

Then again Whatley, who specializes in diagnosing learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder (ADD), had never before been asked to evaluate a college athlete, let alone an athlete whose sport was in season and whose eligibility was in jeopardy with a semester rushing to a close.

Cal Youth Camps offers one - of - a-kind social skills camps for children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and children with similar social skills deficits.

Because the brain of the young athlete is still developing, with even subtle damage leading to learning deficits adversely affecting development, and with studies showing younger athletes recover more slowly than adults, a more conservative approach to concussions in children and teens than for older athletes is recommended.

Debra specializes in teaching reading and writing to elementary school children who are learning disabled, on the autism spectrum, have attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, and who are «twice exceptional» (gifted with learning differences).

Special needs children thrive, especially those with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or other learning or psychological problems, because of the individual attention teachers pay to each student.

There are many reasons for teens to underperform at school, including a lack of motivation to do well, problems at home or with peers, poor work habits or study skills, emotional and behavior problems, learning disabilities (such as dyslexia), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation or below average intelligence and other medical problems, including anxiety and depression.

John Ratey, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, prescribes exercise for kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (and everyone else) because it boosts moods, relieves stress, and improves learning and memory.

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) isn't classified as a learning disability, but it's important to note that those with learning disabilities suffer from difficulty concentrating as well.

2) Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature - Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv — read this concurrently with # 3 3) Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head by Carla Hannaford — which will probably lead to curiosity about # 4 4) Brain Gym or similar therapies offered by # 5 and # 6 5) The National Association for Child Development -LRB--RRB- 6) The Developmental Movement Center, Seattle [phone] ″

and Focus On Transition (two therapeutic programs for individuals with aphasia and cognitive - linguistic deficits), Hear It, Say It, Learn It (a children's program for developing language and literacy), and co-author of a best - selling textbook Acquired Language Disorders: A Case - based Approach, in its 2nd edition.

As a learned man pointed out to me yesterday, Andy (magically) slashed the $ 10 billion deficit by 90 % with... a press release!

In the study, led by post-doctoral fellow Long N. Nguyen of Duke - NUS, researchers found that mice without the Mfsd2a transporter had brains a third smaller than those with the transporter, and exhibited memory and learning deficits and high levels of anxiety.

Next comes annoyance — which impairs people's well - being even if it has no direct impact on health — with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000.

The Internet seems to be saturated with information for parents about attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other learning disorders, but few sites offer something for the kids themselves.

These newborns are left with motor and cognitive deficits that will lead to learning and memory problems by the time they begin school.

Nearly three - quarters of homeless adults with mental illness in Canada show evidence of cognitive deficits, such as difficulties with problem solving, learning and memory, new research has found.

Their parents reported more learning and behavioral problems, such as difficulty reading; behaviors consistent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; breaking rules; or displaying aggression, anxiety or social withdrawal.

They are scientists at the Singapore Institute for Infocomm Research, part of the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A * STAR), and they are developing a tool that can potentially help children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder learn how to focus.

In addition, we have provided recommendations for selecting performance measures and sample sizes to make these assays sensitive to learning and memory deficits in humans with MCI - AD and in mouse models.

Analysis of the distance, latency, and cumulative search error (CSE) rank - summary scores revealed that MCI - AD patients and hAPP mice were significantly impaired in this task (Table 1 and Figure 1, B — D and F — I), consistent with a deficit in hippocampus - dependent spatial learning.

«We learned from our previous research that there is a continuum of risk for deficits in height and weight among children with food allergies, and kids who are allergic to cow's milk are at heightened risk,» Dr. Robbins adds.

Discovered that aberrant patterns of neuronal network activity result in profound anatomical and physiological alterations of learning and memory centers and may contribute to cognitive deficits in humans with AD and related mouse models.

«Our ultimate goal is to help people with learning difficulties and memory deficits,» said Earl K Miller, senior author of the paper and the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Development of Brain and Cognitive Slearning difficulties and memory deficits,» said Earl K Miller, senior author of the paper and the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Development of Brain and Cognitive SLearning and Memory Development of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

«We found that mice that had been genetically engineered to produce human apoE4 lost a specific kind of cells and that loss of these cells correlated with the extent of learning and memory deficits,» said Yaisa Andrews - Zwilling, PhD, postdoctoral fellow and lead author of the study.

Here we show that vaccination with A beta protects transgenic mice from the learning and age - related memory deficits that normally occur in this mouse model for Alzheimer's disease.

In individuals with deficits in processing, impaired learning and memory may stem from difficulties with working memory and attention, as well as slowed processing speed.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

Most children have short attention spans, but attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a more serious problem with inattention, impulsivity, and / or hyperactivity that affects a child's ability to learn and get along with others.

All my life I have struggled with brain fog, attention deficit disorder, and learning disabilities; it seemed as though my brain was broken and not working as it should.

The chicken phthalates have also been associated with increased odds of Caesarean section, diminished child intelligence (particularly in boys), attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, later in life, abdominal obesity, altered thyroid function, damaged sperm, and, as we learned this summer, a lower sperm count.

The relationship between better brain function and vitamin A is also very important, with many clinicians using this nutrient in adults and children with a wide range of neurological deficits, including those with learning and memory problems.

Read educational articles, parenting articles, & more Children with attention deficit disorder and / or learning disabilities can be a challenge for any classroom teacher.

I did attend school with other children like me; children who had «hidden handicaps» (students with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, etc.) We were shuffled into lower level programs and did not receive special services.

This is a booklet that highlights specific needs and provides strategies for inclusion for the following: 20 Practical Tips for Behaviour Management, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Aspergers Syndrome, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, General Learning Difficulties, Hearing, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), School Phobia, Speech and Language Difficulties, Working with Pupils with reading / spelling ages below their chronological ages, Tracking paths from KS2 to KS4, Neutral Language Scripts, Useful Websites.

The remaining 90 percent have been diagnosed with developmental disabilities such as emotional disturbance and specific learning disabilities, the most common of which are Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

For example, in the United States, youth with a diagnosable mental disorder account for almost 20 percent of the population of children.These children are also more likely to be from low - income families, to be exposed to violence and losses, as well as to have social and adaptive behavioral deficits that make it difficult for them to learn.

Resistance to evaluating teachers on results is well - founded at one level: Unsophisticated administrators might use unsuitable measures like norm - referenced tests or unfairly evaluate teachers for failing to reach grade - level standards with students who were poorly taught the year before or who had significant learning deficits.

Students with attention deficits often are bright and capable of learning, but problems focusing and low frustration tolerance can impede their academic performance.

In fact, about one of every three students with an attention deficit disorder also exhibits a learning disability.

They typically bring their learning deficits from disorganized homes in troubled neighborhoods, places where ill - prepared and overstretched adults, very often young single moms with minimal education of their own, offer babies and toddlers too little true conversation, intellectual stimulation, and cognitive growth.

Those with incoming language deficits have less time available to learn the general curriculum.

All of the students had been diagnosed with a learning disability and / or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

It is designed for students with word - level deficits not making sufficient progress through their current intervention, have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies and require multisensory language instruction, or who require more intensive structured literacy instruction due to a language - based learning disability, such as dyslexia.

The process used in each story is highly effective for students with learning and language deficits.

Cognitive mechanisms underlying achievement deficits in children with mathematical learning disability.

The TIDE School opened in 2015 and provides individualized educational planning for students with dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, anxiety disorders, and other specific learning disorders or impairments that impact learning.

Despite attempts to improve efficiency, schools are facing large deficits, with potential consequences to learning outcomes.