Comments on “Specific Learning Disabilities: Issues that Remain Unanswered”

The Key Questions Remain Unanswered

First, we described an illustrative notional planning magnitude for each threat based on a stylized threat and risk assessment, while noting that a more comprehensive threat and risk assessments could reveal that these illustrative magnitudes were either too high or too low. Our illustrative threat assessments relied on historical data revealing observed frequencies and consequences of each thr...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Children with Specific Learning Disabilities: Identification, Assessment and Guidelines for Teachers and Parents

Background: According to the latest definition presented by American Psychiatric Association within the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) published may 2013, a specific learning disabilities characterized as a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects individual learning. In this edition, the term “learning disability” was changed to the “specific...

A Different Learning Way For Pupils With Specific Learning Disabilities

Several factors may contribute to a child's failure to learn, some possible causes of school failure are specific learning disabilities. Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disabilities; dyslexia is to fail to learn to read in spite of adequate environment, normal intelligence, and decent educational opportunities. Various studies have recently focused on dyslexia on different scientifi...

Epilepsy or stereotypy? Diagnostic issues in learning disabilities

Approximately 0.8% of people in the general population have epilepsy. Within this group are specific sub-populations who co-present with other additional conditions, learning disability being one such example. Epilepsy rates are the highest of all in this subgroup, between 21% and 50% and positively correlated with degree of learning disability. In addition, in the more severe categories, probl...