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DISORDER OF COGNITIVE ABILITIES

10/5/2016

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As an educator and school psychologist, I have often been asked to provide information about different learning disabilities. In my past blogs, I have written about processing disorders or learning challenges that are more common such as auditory or visual processing. However, in this post I am hoping to shed light on an area of processing that is often unclear or misunderstood due to lack of familiarity or experience with the terms. Admittedly, this area of processing was the least familiar to me as a school psychologist and as such I have spent quite a large amount of time learning and researching the definitions to gain better understanding. My goal in this post is to share the information I have acquired, expose more of educators to the terms and definitions of Cognitive Abilities: Conceptualization, Association and Expression and deepen our understanding of how these processing disorders impact our students.

In order to clearly understand the disorder of cognitive abilities, it is important to acquire a few basic understandings. First, the disorder of cognitive abilities is comprised of three categories: Conceptualization, Association, and Expression. Secondly, each of these categories is distinctly different for one another and impacts distinct cognitive domains. Lastly, the way each of these categories presents in a student is distinctive and not necessarily interrelated.
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To further understand the disorder of cognitive abilities, it is important to have a clear definition of each of the categories, the cognitive domains most likely impact, and examples of how it may present in the students we support. Below is a table with this information:
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In order to support students with this processing deficit, it would be most effective to identify the cognitive domain most impacted (i.e. Long-term memory, short-term memory, processing speed, crystallized knowledge, fluid reasoning, etc.) and then tailor instructional interventions and accommodations to those areas of deficit. For example, if a student was struggling with cognitive conceptualization, it would be most useful to identify strategies to support a student with fluid reasoning deficits.  I hope this information will help in planning for our students with disorders in cognitive abilities, as well as, other learning challenges. 
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Blog post written by:
Meka Tull, Director of School Partnerships & Director of Special Education at
​Lighthouse and Lodestar

10 Comments
Jorge Mata
2/7/2019 02:10:25 pm

I liked and enjoyed your explanations of these ever elusive terms in school psychology. I find these terms the most interesting as well and try to "wrap my head" around them ever so often.
Keep up the inquiry :) and thanks for sharing.

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Natalie Serna-Bates
5/1/2019 08:43:50 pm

Thank you for this great resource! I tried accessing the link in this post for the instructional strategies and accommodations and it isn't active. Is there another way to access this information? Thank you!

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UE Blog Support
10/18/2019 04:18:06 pm

Hi There!

Sorry for the delay in the response but it looks like the link through the resource is no longer available and we also can no longer access it.

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Breeanna
9/4/2019 12:24:30 pm

I've been looking for this information for a long time and it was just what I needed to help identify SLD in this area. Thank you so much!

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Monica Manuel
10/3/2019 05:54:12 pm

Thank you so much for this information! I too am having trouble with the link to strategies. Is there a website that I can refer to?

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UE Blog Support
10/18/2019 04:26:08 pm

Thank you for letting us know that the link doesn't work. We will remove it and look to see if we can provide another link that provides similar information. Thanks!

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Jessica
10/15/2019 11:29:07 am

I stumbled upon your blog while searching "cognitive abilities recommendations" and this is great! I am a new School Psych. and I tend to struggle with this area. This helps a lot! The link to the strategies/accommodations isn't working though. Can you provide another way to access that page. Thanks!

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UE Blog Support
10/18/2019 04:27:12 pm

Hello there!

Unfortunately we don't have access to that page anymore, since it's a couple of years old. We will try to find another resource we can share.

Thanks!

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Beckett Haight link
9/27/2020 10:03:34 am

Thanks for taking the time to share this info. The research/new knowledge never stops for us in this field!

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Breanna Cushing
3/15/2022 12:54:57 pm

This has been unbelievably helpful!! I've had a hard time tracking down something that paints so clearly, the differences between the three cognitive abilities categories. Thank You!!!

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