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Costa, Lara-Jeane C.; Edwards, Crystal N.; Hooper, Stephen R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
This longitudinal study was conducted to determine (a) the rate of co-occurrence of reading disabilities (RDs) in a writing disability (WD) population of students followed from first grade to fourth grade and (b) the cognitive burden that is assumed by having a WD and a RD (WD + RD). The sample included 137 first-grade students from a single…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Difficulties, Reading Difficulties, Multiple Disabilities
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Forness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A.; Bauman, Stephanie San Miguel – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1998
The authors of an earlier article, which argued that the social skills deficits typically found in children with learning disabilities (LD) are largely due to the comorbidity of LD with psychiatric disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depressive disorder, respond to a critique that did not find this relationship…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Depression (Psychology), Hyperactivity
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Wiener, Judith – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1998
Responds to Miguel, Forness, and Kavale, who argued that the social skills deficits typically found in children with learning disabilities are largely due to the comorbidity of learning disabilities with psychiatric disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depressive disorder. This review finds this relationship for LD…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances
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San Miguel, Stephanie K.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
This article explores the hypothesis that social skill deficits among children with learning disabilities are associated with high rates of undetected psychiatric diagnoses. The maladaptive social skills patterns of children with specific subtypes of learning disabilities appear to mimic the symptom patterns of children with attention deficit…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances