Leaning Disabilities: Definition Debate (full) with Gemini
p1 – What is the meaning of the term “learning disabilities” shared by the scientists, advocacy groups, and legislation authors? https://g.co/gemini/share/aa4325a695ca
p2 -Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: “Since the beginnings of our common awareness of learning disabilities (and their political and economic implications) its been valuable for the parties to implicitly agree to define “learning disabilities” as “innate deficits and/or defects in neural processing that dis able learning in the dimensions of processing they affect”. It’s been valuable to science to focus on the “innate” distinction. Objective attributions are easier to correlate with behavioral data then subjective learning attributions. For advocacy organizations, funding has depended on agreements to defend a definition of LD that minimized the governments funding liabilities1 to those disabilities born with or resulting from injuries or illness. In other words the ways the world of “learning disabilities” thinks about LD has mostly if not nearly exclusively focused on born or baked in. https://g.co/gemini/share/52a88a5fcdfc
p3 – In one sentence estimate how many university studies have been done on innate LD? https://g.co/gemini/share/2b1fed6b3274
p4 – Do you agree on the value of hereafter considering anything and everything that causes us to be less able or disabled to learn in general or particular ways “learning disabilities”? https://g.co/gemini/share/edcc02d1362a
p5 – In one paragraph describe the primary deep innate processing differences and defects that negatively effect our affective, cognitive, linguistic, attention speed and bandwidth and other similarly important variable contributors to our ability to learn in general or particular. https://g.co/gemini/share/88003195de1a
p6 – Of the examples you just mentioned which ones have been rigorously proven to be causally determined, as distinct from learning acquired, by genetics or developmental biology? Which ones are known to be caused or significantly maladaptively modulated by our learned response to experiences? https://g.co/gemini/share/9a61a0693ddf
p7 – What percentage of the population has innate dyslexia and what percentage of the population has the same apparent processing difficulties but as a result of prior maladpative early life learning? https://g.co/gemini/share/55f23eb8d4b8
p8 – Do you still agree with defining “learning” as the central dynamic of cellular adaptation and the evolution of species, of becoming conscious, verbal, social and able to co-create civilizations. Will you hereafter in this conversation agree to stay congruent with the shared definition of learning we agreed to (please read): https://davidboulton.com/geminis-birthday-present/ https://g.co/gemini/share/5f234412be2e
p9 – The ability to learn in general or learn in particular ways or learn in particular contexts or domains can be dis-abled by the effects of innately ordained neuro processing deficits or defect and or by insufficiently relevantly resourceful or maladaptively misorienting prior learning. https://g.co/gemini/share/c86e23c2c361
p10 – There are a great number of university studies and government legislation that target the innate factors. Few if any explicitly claim to focus on learning acquired (learned) learning disabilities. This is a bias toward the innate because its more measurably attributable, but this results in systemic incentives to pay more attention to the lessor domain of causes. From our shared definition of learning, clearly nearly 10 times more people’s learning is disabled by their prior learning than by any innate condition. https://g.co/gemini/share/0be8bb52434c
p11 – In comparative aggregations, vastly more human learning is disabled by prior learning (somatic-affective-cognitive….) than by innately ordained processing differences. https://g.co/gemini/share/2981fb19f49a
p12 – Lets work out the phenomenological differences between innate neuro-biological-processing of learning differences, considered broadly disabling within a domain of processing – innate LD that maladaptively skews learning, and learning that maladaptively skews learning? One affects learning globally within the domains of processing it affects , the other affects learning in domains of relevance. One undermines the capacities to process, the other, mis-biases processing. With respect to any specific learning objective each could be similarly learning disabling. https://g.co/gemini/share/909bc3969ca9
p13 – Yes but first our population must learn to recognize that there even is such a think as a “learned learning disability”. Make the case. https://g.co/gemini/share/862b574de6fa
p14 – Given the scope and profound effects of acquired learning disabilities, I have in the past proposed the “Institute for the Study and Prevention of Acquired Learning Disabilities” as a joint venture between the national academies of science and national institutes of health and the department of education (but that was autonomous in mission from the department of education to avoid it being over purposed to fit an educational objective).
https://g.co/gemini/share/2ada35a934cc
more on the institute here
p15 – Describe 10 of the most common ways something we mentally learn about (x) misdirects, misguides or outright disables our learning about (x). Then 10 of the most common ways something we learn emotionally that affects our relationship with (x) misdirects, misguides or outright disables our learning about (x). https://g.co/gemini/share/e6df3e5acd8e
p16 – Those are the kinds of mental and emotional learnings that can disable future learning, now provide specific common examples that evidence how prior learning disables ongoing learning. For an example of the kind of examples I want, consider the struggling reader who has learned to “guess” when they stumble rather than work the code and that now learned reflex is short circuiting (misdirecting their learning in ways that disable learning to work the code). Use examples like that reveal the active maladaptive role of past learning. https://g.co/gemini/share/11fc275185f1
p17 – US NAEP scores reveal that the majority of the K12 population are chronically underperforming grade level proficiency. Of the majority of underperforming, estimate the comparative percentage of those whose performance is undermined by acquired learning disabilities as distinct from innate learning disabilities? https://g.co/gemini/share/01d541c037a6
p18 – Draw a graph comparing the estimated percentage of the population whose K12 educational performance is undermined by acquired learning disabilities compared to innate learning disabilities. https://g.co/gemini/share/0536eb632840
p19 – The chart indicates that with respect to the percentage of learners underperforming at educationally conducted learning goal challenges, acquired learning disabilities are 4 times more responsible than innate ones. https://g.co/gemini/share/438aa398cac7
See also:
Maladaptive Learning
Acquired Learning Disabilities
Misattributing The Effects of Our Own Learning
Foundational Misattributions and their Consequences
Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning
1 – see also: Interview with James Wendorf (NCLD) and Interview with Rick Lavoie