Developmental Learning Disorders: From Generic Interventions to Individualized Remediation

Developmental Learning Disorders: From Generic Interventions to Individualized Remediation

Developmental learning disorders affect many children, impairing their experience in the classroom and hindering many aspects of their life. Once a bleak sentence associated with life-long difficulties, several learning disorders can now be successfully alleviated, directly benefiting from promising interventions. In this review, we focus on two of the most prevalent learning disorders, dyslexi...

Insights from developmental disorders

When one assesses the language abilities of children and adults with developmental disorders, it is not uncommon to find an uneven profile across the sub-domains of language. Standardized tests for various aspects of language can exhibit a differential relationship compared both to each other and to overall (average) mental age (MA). For example, in a comparison of Down syndrome (DS), Williams ...

Learning and other developmental disorders in India

Articles that include Learning and Developmental Disorders have been gathered from the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (IJP) archives, and are broadly discussed. Learning disorders (LD) are not pure syndromes. They are developmental disorders and are multi-dimensional in nature. Research areas in Child Psychiatry in India remain largely unexplored, especially developmental disorders. The potential...

Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders.

PURPOSE In this article, the authors present a tutorial on the use of developmental trajectories for studying language and cognitive impairments in developmental disorders and compare this method with the use of matching. METHOD The authors assess the strengths, limitations, and practical implications of each method. The contrast between the methodologies is highlighted using the example of d...

Early interventions to prevent mental disorders--learning lessons from the field of psychosis.