Post by misty on Jan 7, 2007 0:20:45 GMT -5
notellin...........Thread Started on Dec 3, 2006, 12:05pm
Do children with learning disabilities show a cognitive processing deficit on testing? In terms of testing, what exactly is the key identifier of a LD?
lillian
I'm not sure what you mean by a cognitive processing deficit? There are different types of cognitive skills that are tested on IQ tests. When a particular cognitive skill shows up as a weakness on the IQ test, achievement tests can help explain why. This is the reason why IQ and achievement tests are given together. Neither test alone tells you much of anything. It is the tests together that help define the child's learning issues.
As far as what signifies an LD, well, that's a highly debatable question. Although the federal law changed recently to say that schools no longer have to use the discrepancy formula for finding an LD, many schools still do. What this is is a discrepancy between full scale IQ on the IQ test and achievement scores on the achievement test in areas of accepted LD's under federal law. The discrepancy varies from state-to-state, but it is at least one standard deviation or fifteen points. Some states have 1 1/2 standard deviations, which is 22 points, and some states have 2 standard deviations, which is 30 points.
Charlie Girl
According to this it should show up in testing. The article is long but this is the part that I think answers your question.
medicine.ucsd.edu/nbmu/Faculty/WilliamPerry/CINP.html
Cognitive processing refers to the underlying functions that are involved in everyday problem-solving behavior. These cognitive functions include the ability to attend to information, the ability to encode or learn information, to retrieve learned information for further use, and to process complex information in order to efficiently solve problems. When these cognitive processes are impaired, they manifest as behavioral symptoms that are hallmarks of neuropsychiatric disorders, including disorganized thinking (thought disorder) that results in problems successfully navigating everyday life.
laurapalmer
I haven't read this thoroughly yet but I got this in an email this morning:
www.challenging-our-minds.com/
Do children with learning disabilities show a cognitive processing deficit on testing? In terms of testing, what exactly is the key identifier of a LD?
lillian
I'm not sure what you mean by a cognitive processing deficit? There are different types of cognitive skills that are tested on IQ tests. When a particular cognitive skill shows up as a weakness on the IQ test, achievement tests can help explain why. This is the reason why IQ and achievement tests are given together. Neither test alone tells you much of anything. It is the tests together that help define the child's learning issues.
As far as what signifies an LD, well, that's a highly debatable question. Although the federal law changed recently to say that schools no longer have to use the discrepancy formula for finding an LD, many schools still do. What this is is a discrepancy between full scale IQ on the IQ test and achievement scores on the achievement test in areas of accepted LD's under federal law. The discrepancy varies from state-to-state, but it is at least one standard deviation or fifteen points. Some states have 1 1/2 standard deviations, which is 22 points, and some states have 2 standard deviations, which is 30 points.
Charlie Girl
According to this it should show up in testing. The article is long but this is the part that I think answers your question.
medicine.ucsd.edu/nbmu/Faculty/WilliamPerry/CINP.html
Cognitive processing refers to the underlying functions that are involved in everyday problem-solving behavior. These cognitive functions include the ability to attend to information, the ability to encode or learn information, to retrieve learned information for further use, and to process complex information in order to efficiently solve problems. When these cognitive processes are impaired, they manifest as behavioral symptoms that are hallmarks of neuropsychiatric disorders, including disorganized thinking (thought disorder) that results in problems successfully navigating everyday life.
laurapalmer
I haven't read this thoroughly yet but I got this in an email this morning:
www.challenging-our-minds.com/
I was about to conquer the world but then I got distracted by something shiny.
