Learning and Cognitive Disorders

✍ Scribed by Chacko, Anil; Uderman, Jodi; Feirsen, Nicole; Bedard, Anne-Claude; Marks, David

• Book ID: 122401305
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1056-4993
• DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2013.03.006

✦ Synopsis

Numerous interventions with varying evidence bases exist for the treatment of learning and cognitive disorders.
There are clear evidence-based interventions for reading disorders (eg, peer-assisted learning strategies) and disorder of written expression (eg, self-regulated strategy development). There is emerging evidence suggesting that certain intervention approaches (eg, factretrieval intervention, schema-based instruction, mnemonic strategy instruction, cognitive strategy instruction) may be beneficial for mathematics disorder, but will require more rigorous evaluation. A concrete-to-representational-to-abstract strategy for the treatment of mathematics disorder has good evidence for middle-school and high-school students. Although several commercially available interventions exist for the treatment of auditory processing disorder and poor working memory, review of the existing literature suggests caution in using these treatments.