Adult outcome of childhood learning disability

Neural systems for compensation and persistence: young adult outcome of childhood reading disability.

BACKGROUND This study examined whether and how two groups of young adults who were poor readers as children (a relatively compensated group and a group with persistent reading difficulties) differed from nonimpaired readers and if there were any factors distinguishing the compensated from persistently poor readers that might account for their different outcomes. METHODS Using functional magne...

Two-year outcome audit in an adult learning disability population with refractory epilepsy

Current evidence suggests that epilepsy outcome for people with a learning disability is poor, with the majority remaining refractory to treatment. There is very little evidence from randomised controlled trials in this population and despite the many uncontrolled variables it is suggested that an outcome audit may be one method of adding to the evidence base. This audit reports on the outcome ...

Profile of childhood disability.

Learning disability and epilepsy. I, towards common outcome measures

A major component of the population of people who have epilepsy are people with a learning disability. As a group, such individuals often have complex epilepsy which is refractory to treatment. Current available measures to assess the outcomes of therapeutic interventions in epilepsy are based on seizure frequency, seizure severity and quality-of-life measures, but have not been validated in pe...

Family characteristics, childhood symptoms, and adult outcome in schizophrenia.

Childhood-symptom factors were assessed for a sample of 43 male children, initially diagnosed as schizophrenic during the young-adult period, in terms of their relationship to parental factors. The parental factors plus additional family variables not derived by factor analysis were evaluated as predictors of outcome over a 22-year period extending from early to middle adulthood. Two maternal f...