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Published on: September 27, 2020
Relationships among academic, neuropsychological, and intellectual status in subtypes of adults with learning
G Goldstein1, L Katz, G Slomka
1Highland Drive DVA Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206, USA.
Abstract:
A study was conducted of 102 adults with learning disability for the purposes of (1) contrasting a rule-based with an empirical method of classification into subtypes based on academic achievement levels in reading and arithmetic; and (2) examining cognitive profiles obtained with the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) associated with each of the rule and empirically based subtypes. Both similarities and differences were found between classification methods. Both methods indicated that specific reading disability was associated with the most impaired cognitive profiles of the three subtypes identified. However, they did not agree concerning cognitive profiles of subtypes, characterised by a specific arithmetic deficit or a global deficit. It was found that both the Lurid-Nebraska and WAIS-R profiles distinguished among subtypes more by pattern than by level of performance.
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