From ABC to ADHD - Ak-dyslexia.org

117 Pages·2009·0.91 MB·English

by  Program Manager

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Eric Tridas, MD
AApriill 33 && 44, 22000099
The Hawai’i Branch of the
International Dyslexia Association
The Developmental Web
Development
Educational &
al Profile
Developmental
Academic–Occupational
Behavioral Behavioral &
Behavioral–Emotional
Profile Cognitive
SSoocciaal Intteeraaccttioon
Health
Health
Medical
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Contributing Factors
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Developmental Profile
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Visual Perceptual Problems
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Language Processing
• Phonology
• SSeemmaannttiiccss
• Morphology
• SSynttax
• Discourse
• Metalinguistics
• PPrraaggmmaattiiccss
Tactile-kinesthetic Processing
• Impacts Fine Motor Function
– Progresses in a proximal-distal fashion
– Affected by:
• Sense of body position or movement
• Visual sppatial pprocessingg
• Verbal-motor integration
• Motor planning
• Motor seqquential memoryy
• Monitoring
• Tone
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Memory
• Short Term
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• Long Term
Short Term Memory
• Holds information for a few seconds
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• Depends on:
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– Modality
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– Attention
Working Memory
• Intermediate duration
• Holdingg an idea in mind while developpingg,
elaborating, clarifying, using it
– Recalling answers while thinking of the question
– Complex math problems
– Reading (summarizing/comparing while decoding
– SSellecttiing collor whhiille remembberiing whhatt you are
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