These mutant mice exhibit specific learning impairments, an indication that alpha-CaMKII has a prominent role in spatial learning, but that it is not essential for some types of non-spatial learning.
Studies of specific learning disability in children with NF1 show intellectual impairment in as many as 40% of the children in some series (Riccardi, 1992; North et al, 1994).
Also, of relevance is whether the IDED task identifies specific forms of learning impairment.
The seven phenotypic categories are autism, ID/DD, other health impairments (OHI), psychiatric disorders, behavioral disorders, speech and language impairments, and specific learning disabilities (Additional file 1: Table S1).
The U.S. Department of Education estimates the sequester cut about $579 million in federal funding for IDEA Part B, which supports students age 3-21 with specific learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, intellectual disabilities, autism or emotional disturbances.
Family history of features present in older children such as epilepsy, other CNS malformations, autism, psychiatric disorders, attention deficit disorders, speech and language impairments, and specific learning disabilities were binned into neuropsychiatric/behavioral disorders.
To receive federal funds, colleges are now required to offer reasonable accommodations for documented problems ranging from attention deficit disorder (difficulty concentrating) to specific learning problems like dyslexia (a reading and spelling impairment in the absence of any obvious physical causes or educational lapses) to, increasingly, psychiatric problems.
Stressed females also showed learning impairments during task training.
It includes students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), hearing and vision impairments, emotional disabilities, autism and more severe cognitive delays.
More broadly, federal data show more than 700,000 U.S. undergraduates with some kind of disability, including cognitive and physical impairments, on college campuses (about 31percentt with specific learning disabilities and 18percentt with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
This requires specific learning.
