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Peer reviewedMazzocco, Michele M. M.; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
This paper reviews ongoing research designed to specify the cognitive, behavioral, and neuroanatomical phenotypes of specific genetic etiologies of learning disability. The genetic disorders at the focus of the research include reading disability, neurofibromatosis type 1, Tourette syndrome, and fragile X syndrome. Implications for identifying…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Children, Disability Identification, Etiology
Peer reviewedFiedorowicz, C.; Benezra, E.; MacDonald, W.; McElgunn, B.; Wilson, A.; Kaplan, B. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2001
This article reviews recent research in the field of learning disabilities and, in particular, dyslexia. It summarizes findings from numerous studies employing widely divergent methodologies that have attempted to establish the neurobiological correlates of learning disabilities and concludes that it is impossible to deny a neurobiological basis…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education
