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  • Educational Psychology

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  • Specific learning disorders (SLDs) in children often correlate with prior speech and language impairments.
  • Limited systematic data exists on the co-occurrence of various learning and communication disorders.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the associations among reading, spelling, and math disorders.
  • To examine relationships between learning disorders and diagnosed speech sound and language disorders in children.

Main Methods:

  • Study included 235 Italian children (grades 3-8) diagnosed with SLD.
  • Children were classified based on learning (reading, spelling, math) and communication (speech sound, language) disorders.
  • Prevalence rates for subgroups were calculated.

Main Results:

  • High comorbidity among learning disorders: 75.4% had multiple SLDs, 47.7% had combined reading, spelling, and math disorders.
  • Communication disorders affected 40.4% of the sample.
  • Speech sound and language disorders were frequently linked to spelling disorders, less so to isolated reading or math disorders.

Conclusions:

  • Learning disorders frequently co-occur with communication disorders.
  • Speech and language disorders show the highest comorbidity with spelling disorder, suggesting its role in phonology, language, and learning.