Rethinking Learning Disorders

For most people, learning to read, write, add, or subtract seems straightforward and elementary. But as both a professor of special education and a scientist who studies learning in children with neurodevelopmental issues, I know that, acquiring these essential academic skills is indeed a complicated and effortful endeavor for some and that the problems they and their families experience are often just as complicated.

The psychiatric community has been rethinking learning disorders in an effort to benefit these young people. How does someone’s ability to read fluently affect that individual’s ability to understand mathematical reasoning? What are the best measures for determining a person’s ability to learn? Is the process more about IQ, specific cognitive abilities, achievement, or teaching? Or all of these factors?


http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/05/01/rethinking-learning-disorders/

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