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Learning disabilities and old age
People with learning disabilities form only a small part of the general population, but because of their many special needs, they require the provision of specialist health services. National statistics on the prevalence of learning disabilities are poor, but it has been estimated that 160 000 people in England and Wales have severe or profound learning disabilities (Audit Commission, 1987). El...
متن کاملMathematics and learning disabilities.
Between 5% and 8% of school-age children have some form of memory or cognitive deficit that interferes with their ability to learn concepts or procedures in one or more mathematical domains. A review of the arithmetical competencies of these children is provided, along with discussion of underlying memory and cognitive deficits and potential neural correlates. The deficits are discussed in term...
متن کاملLearning disabilities.
Approximately 5% of all public school students are identified as having a learning disability (LD). LD is not a single disorder, but includes disabilities in any of seven areas related to reading, language, and mathematics. These separate types of learning disabilities frequently co-occur with one another and with social skill deficits and emotional or behavioral disorders. Most of the availabl...
متن کاملForgetting numbers in old age: strategy and learning speed matter.
BACKGROUND Memory intervention research with older adults has primarily focused on immediate effects of training. Little is known about whether memory training can prevent forgetting of a learned material over time. OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of memory training on forgetting of numerical information in old age. In addition, the effect of speed of l...
متن کاملCortisol secretion and functional disabilities in old age: importance of using adaptive control strategies.
OBJECTIVES To examine whether the use of health-related control strategies moderates the association between elevated diurnal cortisol secretion and increases in older adults' functional disabilities. METHODS Functional disabilities of 164 older adults were assessed over 4 years by measuring participants' problems with performing activities of daily living. The main predictors included baseli...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.3.6.312