The Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center

描述(由申请者提供)：该中心的主要目标是通过多学科和综合的努力来促进我们对学习障碍的理解。该研究项目的中心主题是在背景下解决学习障碍的复杂性。 我们通过应用最先进的方法来做到这一点，这些方法使学习障碍的现实模型变得容易处理。我们的方法是多学科的，代表领域包括分子遗传学、行为遗传学、教师教育、教育心理学、发展心理学、认知心理学和认知科学。该中心由六个项目和四个核心组成。项目I，定义、分类和分型，开发和测试了一个新的学习障碍多元模型。项目二，学习障碍，阅读理解和课堂环境，考察了阅读障碍学生的学习环境。项目三，书面表达的纵向和实验调查，考察了写作的发展和背景下的书面表达障碍。项目四，佛罗里达阅读、行为和环境双胞胎项目，在一项大规模的双胞胎研究中分析了基因和环境的相互作用。项目五，幼儿执行功能、注意力和阅读技能/残疾的发展，审查了从学龄前开始执行功能的发展。项目六，患有严重SRD的非裔美国人家庭的基因组序列模式分析，分析了阅读障碍的基因组基础。中心的工作由四个核心支持：管理核心、服务核心、数据核心和PMRN核心。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The major objectives of the Center are to advance our understanding of learning disabilities through a multidisciplinary and integrative effort. The central theme of the research program is tackling complexities of learning disabilities in context. We do so by applying state-of-the-art methods that make realistic models of learning disabilities tractable. Our approach is multi-disciplinary, with representation from fields of molecular genetics, behavior genetics, teacher education, educational psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The Center comprises six projects and four cores. Project I, Definition, Classification, and Subtyping develops and tests a new multivariate model of learning disabilities. Project II, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, and the Classroom Environment, examines the learning context of students with reading disabilities. Project III, A Longitudinal and Experimental Investigation of Written Expression, examines the development of writing and disabilities in written expression in context. Project IV, the Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment, analyzes the interplay of genes and environments in a large-scale twin study. Project V, Development of Executive Functioning, Attention, and Reading Skills/Disability In Young Children, examines the development of executive functioning from preschool on. Project VI, Genomic Sequence Pattern Analyses in African-American Families with Severe SRD, analyzes genomic bases of reading disability. The work of the Centers is supported by four cores: an Administrative Core, a Service Core, a Data Core, and a PMRN Core.