Why Can't Delinquents Read?
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 47 (2) , 640
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1978.47.2.640
Abstract
The prevalence of reading disability among delinquents prompts questions about the basis for their problem. Rutter and Yule (1975) divided reading problems into 2 types: general reading backwardness based on low IQ and specific reading retardation, where ability is average but verbal skills poor. Because delinquents often display poor verbal skills, it was hypothesized that the 2nd type is the reading problem common among delinquents. If so, reading should relate more highly to Verbal IQ than to Full Scale IQ. Results suggest that reading might be improved by learning to talk.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- THE CONCEPT OF SPECIFIC READING RETARDATIONJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1975
- Reading as therapy in patients with severe IQ deficits1Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1975
- A Study of Dyslexia and DelinquencyAcademic Therapy, 1969