Fragile X syndrome- educational implications for Fragile X
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Date posted:
January 27th, 2012
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What are the educational implications for males with Fragile X?
Cognitive strengths among males with fragile X include
- verbal labelling and single word vocabulary
- receptive (listening) vocabulary may be higher than expressive (speaking).
- vocabulary for subjects of interest may also be higher than would be expected based upon overall scores.
- visual matching and visual perception tasks with meaningful information (e.g. puzzles with a known picture, as opposed to abstract block designs) are often strengths.
- Visual cueing is often a powerful learning strategy for boys with fragile X, and whole images, such as pictures, logos, or words can often be recognized well.
- memory for situations and for favourite TV shows, videos, and songs is excellent in many boys.
- boys and men with fragile X are often wonderful mimics, memorizing tone as well as words. Success with memory tasks seems to be strongly influenced by the meaningfulness and complexity of information presented.
- good abilities to learn self-care and household management skills,
Weaknesses could include
- higher level thinking and reasoning skills.
- complex problem solving
- cause and effect questions, and other abstract tasks are often areas of deficit.
- visual-motor and visual construction tasks with abstract items (such as bead sequencing and block designs)
- quantitative skills are also often a weakness for both males and females with fragile X.
- Arithmetic abilities may be weaknesses because of visual-spatial problems and poor concepts of quantity and number.
- socialisation and communication items
