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LIMA, Maria Alice Moreira. Learning difficulties and psychiatric science: a critical reading. Estilos clin. [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.3, pp. 441-458. ISSN 1415-7128.  http://dx.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.

Palabras clave : learning difficulties; psychiatric science; children.

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