Mental retardation is one of the major disorders in the category of development disabilities, the others being cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism. The American Association on Mental Deficiency has defined mental retardation as "significantly sub-average intellectual functioning which exists concurrently with deficit in adaptive behavior, and is manifested during the developmental period"1. "Si...

The visual attention (VA) span is defined as the amount of distinct visual elements which can be processed in parallel in a multi-element array. Both recent empirical data and theoretical accounts suggest that a VA span deficit might contribute to developmental dyslexia, independently of a phonological disorder. In this study, this hypothesis was assessed in two large samples of French and Brit...

Can’t do/won’t do assessment is a pragmatic procedure grounded in the functional academic assessment literature. It describes two possibilities with regard to child performance. The basic premise of the can’t do/won’t do assessment is that children who are not meeting expectations for successful academic performance in the classroom either cannot (i.e., have a skill deficit) or will not (i.e., ...

Individuals with damage to the cerebellum perform poorly in sensorimotor adaptation paradigms. This deficit has been attributed to impairment in sensory prediction error-based updating of an internal forward model, a form of implicit learning. These individuals can, however, successfully counter a perturbation when instructed with an explicit aiming strategy. This successful use of an instructe...

BackgroundAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is a multifactorial disorder and converging evidence has implicated abnormalities of dopamine neurotransmission. The aim of this study was to examine the association of -141 polymorphisms in DRD2 gene with ADHA among Iranian-Azeri population.Materials and Methods A case–control association study included 153 patients with attention defi...

The purpose of this paper is to show, using a simple two-periods overlapping generations (OLG) model in which goods are produced solely by labor monopolistically competitive industry, that continuous budget deficit necessary maintain full-employment under economic growth driven autonomous technological progress. Since the must be continuous, it should financed seigniorage not public debt. Also ...

A ocorrência de deficit precipitação pode provocar estiagem, acarretando prejuízos econômicos e desabastecimento para uma determinada região ou município. O estado do Rio Grande Sul (RS) é atingido por diversos sistemas meteorológicos que influenciam em seus regimes precipitação. No verão 2019/2020 foi observado brusca redução nos acumulados mensais no município Pelotas - RS, ocasionando proble...