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Peer reviewedKaplan, Bonnie J.; Dewey, Deborah M.; Crawford, Susan G.; Wilson, Brenda N. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2001
This article criticizes the term "comorbidity" used to describe the overlap of developmental syndromes or disorders. Data from 179 school-age children are evaluated for criteria of seven disorders. Since fully 50 percent of the sample met the criteria for at least two diagnoses, the premise that these disorders are discrete categories on…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Definitions
Peer reviewedMann, Virginia A.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Two experiments comparing 114 good and poor readers in second and fourth grades as well as 26 college students found poor readers did not interpret spoken sentences as accurately as good readers and that their performance was like that of younger children suggesting a developmental lag in phonological processing skills. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Developmental Disabilities
