LIMA, Maria Alice Moreira. Learning difficulties and psychiatric science: a critical reading. Estilos clin. []. 2015, 20, 3, pp.441-458. ISSN 1415-7128.  https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v20i3p441-458.

This article presents a critical examination of the ways in which learning difficulties were addressed by the psychiatric science when they emerged as a major social problem. Despite the influence of the various theories about children and their development produced in the first half of the 20th century, this article identifies a predominance of the functionalist approach to the identification of the learning disability, a tendency evident in the search for an organic causality or the regarding of a "psychic causality" as an attempt to justify the learning disability. In both situations is evident the silencing of children, who are treated as mere subjects of several scientific speculations.

: learning difficulties; psychiatric science; children.

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