We assessed the impact of intrapersonal and interpersonal resilience, persistence, and number of difficulties in addition to reading problems on life satisfaction (general, social, and self) and academic achievement. A total of 120 adults with reading difficulties who either were completing a university degree or were recent graduates responded to…

A new approach, the social control of learning disabilities, argues that the child's disability affects mainly his parents and then teachers and professionals in such a way that their activities to help him are thwarted by the same complex of symptoms as those of the child's disability. (Author)