Chapter Objectives

After studying the materials in this chapter, you should:

Understand the cellular basis of neural development, and the factors that affect the development.

Know how higher order functions have been studied in the developing brain.

Understand language development and the left hemisphere specialization.

Know the identified factors related to developmental abnormalities.

Understand what a learning disability is and how it is conceptualized with the amount of data available.

Understand what attention deficit disorder is and the theories surrounding ADD.

Understand what autism is and how it is conceptualized.

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