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Mattison, Richard E.; Spitznagel, Edward L.; Felix, Bernard C., Jr. – Behavioral Disorders, 1998
A study investigated variables that differentiated 75 successful and 76 unsuccessful students (ages 6-16) with serious emotional disturbances (SED). Four variables emerged as significant predictors of the unsuccessful outcome group: increasing enrollment age, presence of conduct or opposition disorder, lower verbal IQ, and absence of depressive or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Disorders, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education
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D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
Data from 143 children with reading disabilities (RD), 100 with arithmetic disabilities (AD), and 121 controls (ages 6-16) found the RD and AD groups had significantly lower scores on all verbal IQ subtests. Many also showed significant differences between verbal and performance IQ scores, but so did many controls. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient
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Mayes, Susan Dickerson; Calhoun, Susan L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2003
Psychological data were analyzed for 164 individuals (ages 3-15) with autism (IQs 14-143). Verbal IQ lagged behind nonverbal during the preschool years, but by school age the gap had closed. For school-age children with low IQs, math, spelling, and writing scores were consistent with IQ and reading was above IQ. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Autism, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education