The Daily Excerpt wrote:
> [QUOTE] Children with NLD (non-verbal learning disability) generally do
> well on most elements of aptitude tests except for those that involve
> visual spatial processing, such as recognizing and working with shapes.
> .... Rasmussen and Liddell put 14 children with NLD --12 boys and two
> girls-- through a number of tests, including showing them patterns of
> dots and then showing them the same patterns a few minutes later to see
> if the children recognized them. The children did well at this task,
> but when a similar experiment was conducted using pictures of people's
> faces, the children did poorly in recognizing the faces, especially
> shortly after they first saw them. They did better at recognizing faces
> the more time they had to process them. "It's interesting that they had
> no problem remembering the dots but had significant difficulty
> remembering the faces," Rasmussen said. "We do not know exactly why
> children with NLD have such difficulty with facial memory, so this
> study certainly opens up the door for further research."
>
> FROM http://www5.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoa-sra081005.php
>
I wonder is this is solely a product of faulty genes, or
testament to way the child was stimulated in its earliest years.
I wonder if a lack of exposure to certain environmental cues,
results in poor development of the functions which might be
triggered by those environmental cues.
In this case a child who, for some reason, did not see much of
their parents in the first weeks of life, or who wasn't exposed
very early on to a variety of facial types, might fail to develop
those dependent functions. The same might even be true of memory.
This strikes me as one of those areas where data would be hard
to come by. How would one confirm such a theory and not leave
the child at risk of poor long term development?
The opposite might also be true, that stimulation on an wider
variety of numerological functions might result in a real
benefit later in life. The question then might be how to
trigger those functions at the earliest possible time and then
sup****t them with on going stimulation.
[There might also a question of sequence to be observed and
numerological resources which might be exhausted by over stimulation.]
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