News tagged with developmental difficulties
Robot brings hope to kids with learning difficulties
Mar 20, 2009 |
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A robot named Cosmo has become six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald's unlikely ally in his uphill everyday battle with developmental difficulties.
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Unraveling 'math dyslexia'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Although school has been back for less than a month, it is likely that many children are already experiencing frustration and confusion in math class. Research at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada could ...
Face blindness research shows emotions are key in the study of face recognition
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Recognizing the faces of family and friends is usually an effortless process. However, a minority of people have difficulties identifying the person they are meeting or remembering people they have met before. These problems ...
Research shows developmental problems for siblings of autistic children
Apr 23, 2007 |
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Younger siblings of children with autism are at risk to suffer from delayed verbal, cognitive and motor development in their early childhood years.
Mouse model provides a new tool for investigators of human developmental disorder
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome (WHS) is a human disease caused by spontaneous genetic deletions. Children born with WHS have a characteristic set of facial features, including a wide flat nose bridge, downturned mouth, high forehead, ...
New brain findings on dyslexic children
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...
Children of undocumented parents may be at higher developmental risk
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Undocumented people live in a shadowy world of high fear and stress -- fear of deportation and stress brought on lack of economic, linguistic and educational resources.
Getting lost -- a newly discovered developmental brain disorder
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Feeling lost every time you leave your home? You may not be as alone as you think. Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute recently documented the first case of a ...
First Gene Discovered for Most Common Form of Epilepsy
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers, led by investigators at Columbia University Medical Center, has uncovered the first gene linked to the most common type of epilepsy, called Rolandic epilepsy. ...
Children with emotional difficulties at higher risk for adult obesity
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Previous research has shown that low self-esteem and emotional problems are found in people who are overweight or obese- but not which influences which. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine, sheds ...
How the brain copes in language-impaired kids
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Researchers at UCL (University College London) have discovered that a system in the brain for processing grammar is impaired in some children with specific language impairment (SLI), but that these children compensate with ...
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