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Describe the Problems That Many Individuals with Learning Disabilities Encounter

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Describe the problems that many individuals with learning disabilities encounter in making the transition from student to adult life.


Definitions:

Blindsight

A phenomenon in which people who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli in that area without consciously perceiving them.

Selective Attention

The process by which one focuses on one input or task while ignoring other stimuli or information.

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits, where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight when other attention-demanding tasks are being performed.

Daydreaming

A mild, self-generated form of detachment from immediate surroundings, characterized by a person's drift of attention away from the task at hand.

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