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The Effect of Brain Gym® on Academic Engagement for Children with Developmental Disabilities
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Watson, Andrea; Kelso, Ginger L. – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
Following recent legislative initiatives in education requiring evidence-based practices, schools have implemented various instructional programs characterized as "evidence-based." However, it is important to question whether these methods are truly effective. One example of a methodology currently promoted and used in schools is an…
Descriptors: Brain, Learner Engagement, Developmental Disabilities, Cognitive Development
Brain Hemisphericity and Developmental Dyslexia
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Vlachos, Filippos; Andreou, Eleni; Delliou, Afroditi – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The present study examined the link between brain hemisphericity and dyslexia in secondary school students, using the Preference Test (PT), a widely used self-report index of preferred hemisphere thinking styles. The hypothesis was that differences would be revealed between the dyslexic group and their peers in hemispheric preference. A total of…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Correlation, Cognitive Processes, Hypothesis Testing
Neural Underpinnings of Impaired Predictive Motor Timing in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
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Debrabant, Julie; Gheysen, Freja; Caeyenberghs, Karen; Van Waelvelde, Hilde; Vingerhoets, Guy – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
A dysfunction in predictive motor timing is put forward to underlie DCD-related motor problems. Predictive timing allows for the pre-selection of motor programmes (except "program" in computers) in order to decrease processing load and facilitate reactions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study investigated the neural…
Descriptors: Brain, Visual Stimuli, Reaction Time, Intervals
Memory and Brain Volume in Adults Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol
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Coles, Claire D.; Goldstein, Felicia C.; Lynch, Mary Ellen; Chen, Xiangchuan; Kable, Julie A.; Johnson, Katrina C.; Hu, Xiaoping – Brain and Cognition, 2011
The impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on memory and brain development was investigated in 92 African-American, young adults who were first identified in the prenatal period. Three groups (Control, n = 26; Alcohol-related Neurodevelopmental Disorder, n = 36; and Dysmorphic, n = 30) were imaged using structural MRI with brain volume calculated for…
Descriptors: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Young Adults, Memory, Brain
Numerical and Non-Numerical Ordinality Processing in Children with and without Developmental Dyscalculia: Evidence from fMRI
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Kaufmann, L.; Vogel, S. E.; Starke, M.; Kremser, C.; Schocke, M. – Cognitive Development, 2009
Ordinality is--beyond numerical magnitude (i.e., quantity)--an important characteristic of the number system. There is converging empirical evidence that (intra)parietal brain regions mediate number magnitude processing. Furthermore, recent findings suggest that the human intraparietal sulcus (IPS) supports magnitude and ordinality in a…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Learning Disabilities, Brain, Numeracy
Normality and Impairment following Profound Early Institutional Deprivation: A Longitudinal follow-up into Early Adolescence
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Kreppner, Jana M.; Rutter, Michael; Beckett, Celia; Castle, Jenny; Colvert, Emma; Groothues, Christine; Hawkins, Amanda; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Stevens, Suzanne; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Longitudinal analyses on normal versus impaired functioning across 7 domains were conducted in children who had experienced profound institutional deprivation up to the age of 42 months and were adopted from Romania into U.K. families. Comparisons were made with noninstitutionalized children adopted from Romania and with nondeprived within-U.K.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Adolescents, Brain