Research Catalog

Title

The Neuropsychology of learning disorders : theoretical approaches : proceedings of an international conference, Korsør, Denmark, June 15-18, 1975 / sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Scientific Affairs Division, Carleton University, the Pickering Fund ; edited by Robert M. Knights and Dirk J. Bakker.

Publication

Baltimore : University Park Press, ©1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Knights, Robert M.
• Bakker, Dirk J.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• Carleton University.
• Pickering Foundation.

Description

xvi, 532 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Learning disabilities
• Neurophysiology
• Neurophysiology > Congresses
• Neurophysiology
• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
• Learning Disabilities
• Learning disabilities
• Leermoeilijkheden
• Geestelijk gehandicapten

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 469-521.

Contents

Part I. Epidemiology and social implications of learning disabilities -- Prevalence estimates and the need for definition of learning disabilities / William H. Gaddes -- Epidemiology and social implications of specific reading retardation / William Yule and Michael Rutter -- Follow-up study of children with specific (or primary) reading disability / Ronald L. Trites and Christine Fiedorowicz -- Part II. Physiological and biochemical correlates of learning disabilities -- Biochemical and electroencephalographic correlates of learning disabilities / John R. Hughes -- Focused arousal and 40-Hz EEG / Daniel E. Sheer -- Psychophysiological study of methylphenidate responders and nonresponders / H. Bruce Ferguson, Suzanne Simpson, Ronald L. Trites -- Physiological responses in intrasensory and intersensory integration of auditory and visual signals by normal and deficit readers / Maureen Julianne Levine -- Hypothesis for a possible biochemical basis of minimal brain dysfunction / Paul H. Wender -- Part III. Genetic and maturational variables in relation to learning disabilities -- Reading retardation in children : developmental lag or deficit? / Byron P. Rourke -- Handedness, footedness, eyedness : a prospective study with special reference to the development of speech and language skills / Annetta Karâa McBurney and Henry G. Dunn -- Developmental stratagems organizing intellectual skills : evidence from studies of temporal lobectomy for epilepsy / David C. Taylor -- Neurobehavioral relationships in young children : some remarks on concepts and methods / Alex F. Kalverboer -- Part IV. Cerebral dominance and learning disabilities -- Sex differences in the neuropsychological development of verbal and spatial skills / Anthony W.H. Buffery -- Development of laterality-reading patterns / Dirk J. Bakker, Jetty Teunissen, Joop Bosch -- Lateralization in severely disabled readers in relation to functional cerebral development and synthesis of information / Che K. Leong -- Abnormal right hemisphere specialization in developmental dyslexia / Sandra F. Witelson -- Cognitive style and specialized hemispheric processing in learning disability / Morton P. Friedman, B. LaRue Guyer-Christie, Alexander Tymchuk -- Cognitive approach to hemispheric dominance / Luigi Pizzamiglio -- Cerebral dominance and reading disability : an old problem revisited / Paul Satz -- Part V. Perceptual factors as determinants of learning disabilities -- Exploring the relations between reading and speech / Donald Shankweiler and Isabelle Y. Liberman -- Auditory perceptual factors in language and learning disabilities / Paula Tallal -- Developmental spelling retardation / Hazel E. Nelson and Elizabeth K. Warrington -- Ocular-motor variables in reading disorders / Gerald Leisman and Joddy Schwartz -- Part VI. Implications of drug studies for the origins of learning disabilities -- Drugs and dosages : implications for learning disabilities / Robert L. Sprague and Esther K. Sleator -- Drugs to improve learning in man : implications and neuropsychological analysis / Stuart J. Dimond -- Effects of stimulant drug therapy on learning behaviors in hyperactive/MBD children / H. John van Duyne -- Learning disabilities and stimulant drugs in children : theoretical implications / C. Keith Conners -- Part VII. Research strategies and models for learning disabilities -- Evaluation of two models for learning disabilities / Donald G. Doehring -- Perceptual and cognitive factors as determinants of learning disabilities : a review chapter with special emphasis on attentional factors / Virginia I. Douglas -- Cognitive-functional approach to cognitive factors as determinants of learning disabilities / Donald Meichenbaum -- Part VIII. Post-conference summary -- Neuropsychology of learning disorders : post-conference review / Otfried Spreen.

ISBN

• 0839109512
• 9780839109518

LCCN

76029072

OCLC

• ocm02401733
• 2401733
• SCSB-277808

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library