The career success of an adult with a learning disability: a psychosocial study of amnesic-semantic aphasia.
B.I. is a 39-year-old, intellectually gifted (IQ = 130) man with learning disabilities who, without known cause, demonstrated symptoms of amnesic-semantic aphasia at age 13. This led to placement in a public school class for students with mild mental retardation and to his dropping out of school after repeating Grade 9. His aphasia is associated with a severe deficit in speech comprehension, poor reading and writing, spatial confusion, and episodic memory loss. We studied the remarkable behavioral and cognitive adjustments that have enabled him to lead a fulfilling life and become a highly successful business executive. Implications are discussed in the context of patterns of successful functioning and current views of the neuropsychological and neurological bases of such disorders.
Kershner
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Bucknell University.
Kirkpatrick
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McLaren
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000849:Anomia / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001364:Awareness; D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment