Psychosocial Problems among School Age Children with Learning Disabilities and their Parents' Behaviors Thesis

Abstract

A learning disability is a neurological disorder. In simple terms, a learning disability results from a difference in the way a person's brain is "wired." Children with learning disabilities are as smart -or smarter- than their peers. But they may have difficulty reading, writing, spelling, reasoning, recalling and/or organizing information if left to figure things out by themselves or if taught in conventional ways. Learning disabilities are frequently associated with psychosocial problems. Results of the population-based surveys suggest that about 30% of children with learning disabilities have behavioral and emotional problems. Those children are 4 times more likely to have an emotional disorder and 1.7 times more likely to have a depressive disorder.