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Cassidy, Laura; Reggio, Kayla; Shaywitz, Bennett A.; Holahan, John M.; Shaywitz, Sally E. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2021
The authors report findings on reading and IQ from a contemporary study of 145 individually tested incarcerated men and women in two maximum-security prisons in Louisiana. To their knowledge this study is the first to use the definition of dyslexia from the First Step Act (FSA) and the first to incorporate an IQ measure to differentiate those with…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Dyslexia, Intelligence Quotient
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Herrington, V. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: In recent years, academic debate has (re)focused on the extent of the co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID) and criminality, although findings from prevalence studies examining this link have been inconsistent. In April 2004, a process for transferring responsibility for commissioning healthcare services in UK prisons to…
Descriptors: Incidence, Mental Retardation, Correctional Institutions, Intelligence Tests