OBJECTIVES To compare the effect of motor learning with that of standard exercise on measures of mobility and perceived function and disability. DESIGN Single-blind randomized trial. SETTING University research center. PARTICIPANTS Older adults (n = 40) with a mean age of 77.1 ± 6.0, normal walking speed (≥ 1.0 m/s), and impaired motor skills (Figure of 8 walk time >8 seconds). INTERVEN...

According to World Health Organization Learning disability is a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind. The most common learning disabilities are Dyslexia, Dyscalculia Dysgraphia, Auditory and Visual Processing Disorders and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities. Adolescents with learning difficulty have trouble expressing their feelings, calming themselves down, and reading non-verbal c...

In transparent orthographies like German, isolated learning disabilities in either reading or spelling are common and occur as often as a combined reading and spelling disability. However, most issues surrounding the cognitive causes of these isolated or combined literacy difficulties are yet unresolved. Recently, working memory dysfunctions have been demonstrated to be promising in explaining ...

The paper describes a soft computing agent approach to remote learning, which is applied to disabled people suffering from dyslexia. Dyslexia is defined as learning disability by four psychologically obtained factors that present grade of learning deficiency. They are preliminary provided for better understanding and formalization of remote learning process applied to disable people. The paper ...

intellectual disability is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and skills. autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (asd). teenagers with learning and physical disabilities are more likely to have menstrual problems compared to the general populations. the parents of a 12-year-old girl with autism spectr...

This paper discusses the issue of accessibility to being online and using social media for people with a learning disability, and the challenges to using a co-production approach in an accessible technology project. While an increasing number of daily living tasks are now completed online, people with a learning disability frequently experience digital exclusion due to limited literacy and IT s...

Background and context: Recent reports have highlighted deficits in care that some people with a learning disability receive when they are admitted to acute care settings. This may be related to the questionable learning offered to pre-registration adult nursing students in this field of practice, since these may not equip the students with the level of skills and knowledge required to deliver ...

Fifty-nine special needs adolescents [mild intellectual disability (n=16, 9 males and 7 females); moderate intellectual disability (n=33, 14 males and 19 females) and, learning disability (n=10, 7 males and 3 females) aged 16-19 years were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Third edition (WAIS-III) to examine how comparable the profiles of Australian special needs adolescents ...