This study of 174 children meeting criteria for learning disabilities revealed that the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) factors accounted for a large portion of the achievement variance during hierarchical regression analyses. Proposes that the practitioner should refrain from focusing on global scores and…

This study sought to determine the best predictors of low academic achievement at age eight. Subjects were 89 Black children suspected of neurological impairment at age seven. While age four intelligence was the best overall predictor, the seriated factors were not effective in predicting subsequent academic achievement. (SJL)

The study hypothesized that scatter analysis of the three subtest scale scores on the Meeting Street School Screening Test (gross motor patterning, visual-perceptual-motor, and language) given at the beginning of first grade would prove to be a more accurate predictor of future placement in a learning disabilities program than the cut-off total…

The investigation had two objectives: (1) to determine whether teachers of select deaf students can identify those considered to be unofficial candidates for dual diagnosis as deaf and learning disabled; (2) to identify which academic achievement areas, if any, would provide support for informal observations of learning disabled functioning.…

To aid in the early identification of potential learning disabled children a multiple regression equation using analysis of covariance was used to determine which composite predictor variables obtained in kindergarten correlate maximally with first-grade achievement. Eighty-seven kindergarten students in Lawrence, Kansas, who had been instructed…

This study examined the predictive validity of the Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory with adolescents relative to each of the criterion measures representing communication satisfaction toward each parent and feelings toward each parent, and the differential validity of the self-esteem, communication satisfaction, and feelings toward each parent…

The diagnosis of children as learning disabled (LD) has become an increasingly popular diagnostic rubric, but the operational definition of "learning disabled" remains a vague, ill-defined construct which is based upon diagnosis by exclusion of other obvious causes. Diagnostic test results and cultural and familial information taken from case…

The aim of the present study was to address how to effectively predict mathematics learning disability (MLD). Specifically, we addressed whether cognitive data obtained during kindergarten can effectively predict which children will have MLD in third grade, whether an abbreviated test battery could be as effective as a standard psychoeducational…