Abstract

Project I is an integral component of a large research program on the neurocognitive functional deficits of learning disabled children. Its primary aims are (l) to identify """"""""physiologically plausible"""""""" variables of temporal information processing that will discriminate efficiently between learning disabled and normally achieving children; and (2) on the basis of these experimental variables, to define profiles of functional deficits and strengths that characterize subgroups of learning disabled children. Two hundred learning disabled children from 8-11 years who meet specified inclusion and exclusion criteria, and a comparable standardization group of normally achieving children will be examined on low level variables of high frequency temporal information processing in auditory and visual perception and fine motor coordination, as well as on neurocognitive measures of sequence learning and visual filtering of figure-ground relationships. The findings from Project I will also serve as points of departure for other projects of the overall program.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
1P50HD033803-01
Application #
5212948
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
1996
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Publications

Waber, Deborah P; Forbes, Peter W; Wolff, Peter H et al. (2004) Neurodevelopmental characteristics of children with learning impairments classified according to the double-deficit hypothesis. J Learn Disabil 37:451-61
Rivkin, Michael J; Vajapeyam, Sridhar; Hutton, Chloe et al. (2003) A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of paced finger tapping in children. Pediatr Neurol 28:89-95
Waber, Deborah P; Marcus, David J; Forbes, Peter W et al. (2003) Motor sequence learning and reading ability: is poor reading associated with sequencing deficits? J Exp Child Psychol 84:338-54
Weiler, Michael David; Forbes, Peter; Kirkwood, Michael et al. (2003) The developmental course of processing speed in children with and without learning disabilities. J Exp Child Psychol 85:178-94
Peters, Jurriaan M; Waber, Deborah P; McAnulty, Gloria B et al. (2003) Event-related correlations in learning impaired children during A hybrid go/no-go choice reaction visual-motor task. Clin Electroencephalogr 34:99-109
Waber, Deborah P; Weiler, Michael D; Forbes, Peter W et al. (2003) Neurobehavioral factors associated with referral for learning problems in a community sample: evidence for an adaptational model for learning disorders. J Learn Disabil 36:467-83
Weiler, Michael David; Bernstein, Jane Holmes; Bellinger, David et al. (2002) Information processing deficits in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, inattentive type, and children with reading disability. J Learn Disabil 35:448-61
Kirkwood, M W; Weiler, M D; Bernstein, J H et al. (2001) Sources of poor performance on the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test among children with learning difficulties: a dynamic assessment approach. Clin Neuropsychol 15:345-56
Duffy, F H; Valencia, I; McAnulty, G B et al. (2001) Auditory evoked response data reduction by PCA: development of variables sensitive to reading disability. Clin Electroencephalogr 32:168-78
Valencia, I; McAnulty, G B; Waber, D P et al. (2001) Auditory evoked responses to similar words with phonemic difference: comparison between children with good and poor reading scores. Clin Electroencephalogr 32:160-7

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