Learning disabilities”, or “learning difficulties“, is an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact, most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. This difference affects how they receive and process information.
Simply put, children and adults with learning disabilities see, hear, and understand things differently. This can lead to trouble with learning new information and skills, and putting them to use. The most common types of learning disabilities involve problems with reading, writing, math, reasoning, listening, and speaking.
Types of Learning Difficulties
- Dyslexia is trouble with letter recognition, shape and direction, spelling and reading.
- Dyscalculia is trouble with numbers, concepts of size and shape, calculations and sequencing.
- Dysgraphia is trouble with writing, organizing letters, numbers and words on a line.
- Dyspraxia is trouble with movement, or movement of the muscles which produce speech (Verbal Dyspraxia)
Other disorders that may lead to learning disabilities are:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADD/ADHD),
Autism,
Down Syndrome
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Addictions may involve a compulsive need to use drugs, substances or alcohol in order functioning normally. When these substances
are unobtainable, the person experiences withdrawal symptoms. Some of this withdrawal symptoms may include: anxiety, restlessness, sweating, muscle tension, tremor, depression, racing heart etc. loss of concentration.
Drug and Alcohol Addictions can be very challenging to overcome. A number of case studies and uncontrolled studies show benefit of neurofeedback for treating alcoholic depression (Kumano et al., 1996; Waldkoetter & Sanders, 1997). A few controlled neurofeedback studies (Peniston & Kulkosky, 1989; Saxby & Peniston, 1995) provided further evidence for this reduction in depression and reported sustained prevention of relapse at 21-month follow-up in alcoholics who had completed the training (Saxby & Peniston, 1995). Another showed that 6 of 10 alcohol-dependent males had not relapsed 4 months post self-regulation of slow cortical potentials (Schneider et al., 1993).
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This is also referred to as amnesia which is a failure to recall information which could arise from a failure to register some occurrence (e.g., from lack of attention), a failure to store it (by a process usually called consolidation), or a failure to retrieve from previously stored memories.
Young children especially with learning difficulties experience memory problems in their day to day tasks. Some characteristic traits include:
- Often doesn’t remember what was seen, heard or shown.
- Has difficulty with remembering sequences in directions or instructions.
- Often forgets the pronounciation of frequently used words, spelling is weak.
- Sight vocabulary is weak and reading is often slow to develop.
- Difficulty with items that need to be memorized – facts, speeches, rhymes etc.
- Often appears forgetful.
- Expressive and receptive language is weak.
- Rarely uses appropriate nouns, refers to that thing, or you know.
- Often repeats the same errors
Adults also experience memory deficits, and this challenge affects their performance at work. Older adults are especially prone to dementia experience memory deficits.
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cognitive functioning and decline in both young and old.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by sudden and recurrent seizures. Recurring episodes of sensory and motor disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions characterized this condition. These seizures occur as a result of a sudden surge of brain wave activity in the brain caused by abnormal brain wave activity.
Every function in our bodies is triggered by the communication between neurons in our brain. What a person with epilepsy experiences during a seizure will depend on what part of his/her brain that epileptic activity starts, and how widely and quickly it spreads from that area. Consequently, there are several types of seizures and each patient will have epilepsy in his/her own unique way.
A seizure occurs when multiple
neurons misfire at a single occurrence, Epilepsy results when there is more than one occurrence.
Neurofeedback can be used to stabilize abnormal brain wave activity that characterizes epileptic fits. Researchers have shown in over 50 controlled studies that it can safely and effectively train the brain to function normally. This treatment has been used successfully with all types of seizure disorders with the effects long lasting.
In training sessions, computerized Electroencephalogram (EEG) device detects and displays the brain waves on the computer screen. The program allows for simultaneous inhibition of slow wave EEG (the brain wave activity associated with seizure disorders) while reinforcing mid-range frequencies associated with preventing seizures.
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Understanding Sleeping Disorders
Most of us have experienced trouble sleeping at one time or another. This is normal and usually temporary, due to stress or other outside factors. But if sleep problems are a regular occurrence and interfere with your daily life, you may be suffering from a sleep disorder.
Sleep disorders cause more than just sleepiness. The lack of quality sleep can have a negative impact on your energy, emotional balance and health.
Insomnia: The most common type of sleep disorder
This is inability to get the amount of sleep you need to wake up feeling rested and refreshed, is the most common sleep complaint. Insomnia is often a symptom of another problem, such as stress, anxiety, depression, or an underlying health condition. It can also be caused by lifestyle choices, including the medication you take, lack of exercise, jet lag, or even the amount
of coffee you drink. Acute insomnia is usually short-term, and is related to stress. Chronic insomnia lasts for a month or more.
- Difficulty falling asleep at night or getting back to sleep after waking during the night
- Waking up frequently during the night
- Your sleep feels light, fragmented, or exhausting
- You need to take something (sleeping pills, nightcap, supplements) in order to get to sleep
- Sleepiness and low energy during the day
Is it a sleep disorder?
Do you. . .
If you answered “YES” to any of the previous questions, you may have a sleep disorder.
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Psychosis refers to an abnormal psychiatric condition which affects the mind and puts it a state involving a loss of contact with reality. It may involve hallucinations, delusions and aggressive behavior.
Schizophrenia on the other hand is characterized by a break down in thought processes and lack of appropriate emotional responses. Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
These two psychiatric conditions can be helped and managed effectively with recent advances in neuropsychology. People with psychiatric illnesses usually have
abnormal brain wave activity. With a neuorfeedback assessment, a valid diagnosis of the condition can be gotten and consequently neurofeedback can be used to train those aspects of the brain emitting abnormal brainwave activity.
Psychosis and Schizophrenia can be managed with medications as antipsychotics, but studies are evident on the side effects and possible relapse after a
year of stopping medication. As a result of this most people with these illnesses, end up taking the drugs for life. It is in a bid to establish treatment modalities that have no side effects and lead to lasting changes that researchers Surmeli, Ertem, Eralp and Kos (2012) investigated the efficacy of quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG)-guided neurofeedback (NF) treatment in a population of schizophrenics, and whether this method has an effect on concurrent medical treatment and on the patients. The study showed that neurofeedback was effective. Read more
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