Findings do not reveal clinically significant differences between intellectually delayed and primary reading disabled children. Further exploration into cognitive and learning processes that relate more specifically to the child's difficulties is recommended. (Author)

A twenty-six-month follow-up study was made of 75 Anglo- and Spanish-American primary school children who were examined on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, and the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test in order to determine the specific cognitive deficits which might account for the poor…