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Visuospatial Attention Disturbance in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
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De Moura, Maria Clara Drummond Soares; do Valle, Luiz Eduardo Ribeiro; Resende, Maria Bernadete Dutra; Pinto, Katia Osternack – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim: The cognitive deficits present in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are not yet well characterized. Attention, considered to be the brain mechanism responsible for the selection of sensory stimuli, could be disturbed in DMD, contributing, at least partially, to the observed global cognitive deficit. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Etiology, Neurological Impairments, Diseases, Spatial Ability
Explicit Memory among Individuals with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability: Educational Implications
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Lifshitz, Hefziba; Shtein, Sarit; Weiss, Itzhak; Svisrsky, Naama – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
We previously reported a meta-analysis of explicit memory studies in populations with intellectual disability (ID). The current study discusses the educational implications of this meta-analysis. The main factors at the core of these implications can be divided into two categories: those related to task characteristics (e.g., depth of processing,…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Memory, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Dual-Task Processing as a Measure of Executive Function: A Comparison between Adults with Williams and Down Syndromes
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Kittler, Phyllis M.; Krinsky-McHale, Sharon J.; Devenny, Darlynne A. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2008
Behavioral phenotypes of individuals with Williams syndrome and individuals with Down syndrome have been contrasted in relation to short-term memory. People with Down syndrome are stronger visuospatially and those with Williams syndrome are stronger verbally. We examined short-term memory, then explored whether dual-task processing further…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Short Term Memory, Etiology, Mental Retardation
Cognitive Brain Potentials in Kindergarten Children with Subtyped Risks of Reading Retardation
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Bakker, Dirk J.; Van Strien, Jan W.; Licht, Robert; Smit-Glaude, Sietsia W. D. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2007
Cognition-related brain responses to meaningful and meaningless figures were registered in 5-year-old kindergarten children who either had been subtyped as being at-risk of developing an L- or P-type dyslexia (LAL versus LAP) or who were not at-risk. While identifying, naming, or categorizing pictures, event-related potentials (ERP) were…
Descriptors: Semantics, Learning Modules, Kindergarten, Etiology
Imagery Deficits in Nonverbal Learning Disabilities.
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Rigoni, Fiorenza; Tressoldi, Patrizio Emmanuele; Vio, Claudio – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
A study compared 11 Italian children (ages 7-11) with nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD) to 49 controls on four tasks requiring visuospatial working memory and visual imagery. Results found the children with NVLD showed deficits in the use of visuospatial working memory and visual imagery. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Etiology, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities
Clock Drawing in Developmental Dyslexia.
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Eden, Guinevere F.; Wood, Frank B.; Stein, John F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
A study involving 93 children (ages 10-12), 295 with poor reading skills, found many children with dyslexia and some garden-variety poor readers showed significant left neglect on the Clock Drawing Test. In poor readers with dyslexia, spatial construction deficits were observed like those of parents with acquired right-hemisphere lesions.…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Etiology