BACKGROUND Epilepsy is the most common neurological problem that affects people with learning disabilities. The high seizure frequency, resistance to treatments, associated skills deficit and co-morbidities make the management of epilepsy particularly challenging for people with learning disabilities. The Books Beyond Words booklet for epilepsy uses images to help people with learning disabilit...

People with learning disabilities have a wide range of social and heath care needs. They may also have coexisting conditions that can contribute to need, including physical or developmental disabilities, mental and physical ill-health and a range of behavioural problems. It is often the presence of these conditions that defines need for services. The following are basic understandings that shou...

This study describes response to intervention (RTI) screening and progress-monitoring instruments and procedures in 41 local school settings. For screening the schools most often used published reading assessments or commercial products; a three-times-per-year screening schedule was most prevalent. For progress monitoring schools most often relied on published reading assessments; a weekly prog...

obstacles. I read poorly, and I process spoken language slowly. I have a hard time reading street signs while driving and ordering from menus that don’t have pictures. I avoid reading books. I don’t retain much general knowledge. I have trouble remembering names. I even struggle to remember small but important details, including the date of my wife’s birthday. Throughout my life, daily challeng...

Introduction: Although the effect of educational methods on executive function (EF) is well known, training this function by a playful method is debatable. The current study aimed at investigating if a play-based intervention is effective on metacognitive and behavioral skills of EF in students with specific learning disabilities. Methods: In the current randomized, clinical trial, 49 subjects...

Prevalence of Self-disclosedDisability Among Medical Students in USAllopathicMedical Schools Studying the performance of medical students with disabilities requires abetter understandingof theprevalence andcategories of disabilities represented.1-4 It remains unclear how many medical students have disabilities; prior estimates are out-of-dateandpsychological, learning,andchronichealthdisabiliti...

PURPOSE Epilepsy research has identified higher rates of learning disorders in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). However, most studies have not adequately assessed complex functional adult learning skills, such as reading comprehension and written language. We designed this study to evaluate our predictions that higher rates of reading comprehension, written language, and calculation ...