Visual and verbal neuropsychological functions among students with specific learning disorders

Abstract

Individuals use verbal and visual sensations to memorize, learn and successfully deal with the environmental aspects to effectively lead routine and vigorous life activities. Deficits in visual or verbal neuropsychological functions or both will lead the individual’s life into a problematic condition. SLD is a cluster of difficulties or inabilities to acquire academic skills that can be affected by visual and verbal functional difficulties. The present study was aimed to study visual and verbal neuropsychological functional difficulties of students with SLD in comparison to students unaffected by SLD. 80 participants including 40 students with SLD and 40 students unaffected by SLD undergone for the assessment of Intelligence, SLD, visual and verbal neuropsychological functions. Results revealed students with SLD having difficulties in verbal immediate memory and learning, verbal working memory, learning ability, visual immediate memory and learning, visual-motor coordination, visual divided and sustained attention, visual perception and organization and verbal comprehension.