Article sought to determine the usefulness of tests, such as the WRAT and the WISC, as screening tools to detect learning disabilities and to identify the variables that would determine whether patients screened for learning disorders could be grouped clinically according to the prominence of learning or emotional symptoms. (Author/RK)

Local norms for the three scores of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT)--reading, spelling, and arithmetic--were developed on the basis of 1,021 children in the age range of 5 through 7 and 83 more children aged 8 through 11 from a suburban school district near Seattle, Washington. In general, the local group was found to be superior to the…