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Rourke, Byron P.; Fuerst, Darren R. – School Psychology Review, 1992
Presents two subtypes of learning disabilities (LD) to illustrate hypotheses relating to psychosocial functioning of children with LD: that LD subtypes are manifestations of basic neuropsychological deficits; that subtypes may lead to problems in academic and/or psychosocial functioning; and that relationship between neuropsychological deficits,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Shulman, Shmuel; Rubinroit, Carl I. – Journal of Adolescence, 1987
Considers Blos' conceptualization of adolescence as the stage when a second process of separation-individuation takes place. Notes various handicapping conditions may force adolescent to stay closer to family and hence interfere with adolescent's separation-individuation. Suggests that nature of interference will vary depending on whether the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Developmental Stages, Disabilities
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Rourke, Byron P.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1990
Presents syndrome of nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) and model developed to encompass its complex manifestations. Includes history of development of syndrome, types of children in whom its principal features are manifest, hypothesized neurological bases of syndrome, and test of its developmental dimensions. Provides case study and discusses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Development, Children