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| visual-perceptual/motor theorists |
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| It is when theorists are concerned with imparired visual perception and delayed motor development as possible casuses of learning problems |
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| brain injured, central nervous system dysfunction and minimal brain dysfunction |
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the term minimal brain injury is used to refer to children of normal intelligence who were inattentive, impulsive, and/or hyperactive.
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| Alfred Strauss & Heinz Werner |
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| In the 1930s and 1940s Heinz Werner and Alfred Strauss were able to identify children who were hyperactive and distractible–children who exhibited the Strauss syndrome. |
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| Wayne County Training School |
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| A mental health school for youths built in Norhtville, Michigan. It ran from 1926 to 1974 when it was closed. |
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| Not synthesized or grown within an organism or system |
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| Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder. |
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| A theorists that aserted that learning disabilities were a result of perceptual problems based on dysfunctions in the brain and central nervous system. |
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| Marianne Frostig stressed the necessity of an interdisciplinary and multdimensional diagnostic evaluation as a basis for planing an educational or therapeutic learning program for each child. She believed that movement and activity was important. |
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| The Learning perspective argues that children imitate what they see and hear,and that children learn from punishment and reinforcement. |
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| Dr. Kirk was the founder of the term "Learning Disabilities" |
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A language deficit is considered a secondary diagnosis to a primary diagnosis of EBD, as behavioral needs take precedence over other less attention-demanding needs.
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| Is best known for work in examining the causes and treatments for dyslexia. |
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