Self-perceived health-related quality of life of Indian children with specific learning disability.
S Karande,R Venkataraman +1 more
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Children with newly-diagnosed SpLD perceive their psychosocial, physical, and overall HRQoL to be significantly compromised.Citations
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Personality, Behavior Characteristics, and Life Quality Impact of Children with Dyslexia
TL;DR: Several family environment and parenting factors were associated with children’s dyslexia significantly and provided multiple perspectives for early intervention of Dyslexia in children, particularly in family factors and the parenting environment.
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Investigating quality of life and self-stigma in Hong Kong children with specific learning disabilities
TL;DR: In the academics-focused environment in Hong Kong, SpLD was associated with impaired QoL and higher self-stigma and Treatments targeting the learning process of children with SpLD may be designed to overcome self-Stigma and to improveQoL.
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Specific learning disability: a 5 year study from India
Shipra Singh,Vishal Sawani,Mahesh Deokate,Saminder Panchal,Alka A Subramanyam,Henal Shah,Ravindra Kamath +6 more
TL;DR: Awareness, early identification and referral to appropriate services is crucial to deal with the challenge of learning disability and co-morbidities, particularly ADHD, should be adequately taken care of.
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Quality of Life of Children with Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Self-Reports and Proxy Reports
TL;DR: Findings showed that children with LD reported significantly lower QoL scores than those reported by typically developing peers and that agreement between child reports and parent-proxy reports was either low or moderate on eachQoL dimension.
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Health-related quality of life and psychological wellbeing of children with Specific Learning Disorders and their mothers
TL;DR: This study supports previous research about impaired HRQoL, symptoms of generalized anxiety, school-related anxiety and depressed mood in children with SpLD and provides evidence that mothers of children withSpLD may experience stress in coping with their child's disability and develop socio-emotional symptoms such as anxiety.
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The world health organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL) - position paper from the world health organization
Willem Kuyken,John Orley,Mick Power,Helen Herrman,Hilary Schofield,B. Murphy,Željko Metelko,Silvija Szabo,Mirjana Pibernik-Okanović,N. Quemada,A. Caria,S. Rajkumar,S. Kumar,Shekhar Saxena,Dan Bar-On,M. Amir,M. Tazaki,A. Noji,G. Vanheck,J. Devries,J.A. Sucre,L. Picardami,M. Kabanov,A. Lomachenkov,G. Burkovsky +24 more
TL;DR: The World Health Organization's project to develop a quality of life instrument (the WHOQOL) is described, the reasons that the project was undertaken, the thinking that underlies the project, the method that has been followed in its development and the current status of the project.