Evidence for the Syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities in Children with Brain Tumors
- 9 August 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Child Neuropsychology
- Vol. 4 (2) , 144-157
- https://doi.org/10.1076/chin.4.2.144.3184
Abstract
This study examined the predicted utility of the Nonverbal Learning Disabilities syndrome (NLD) (Rourke, 1995) for characterizing neurocognitive and psychosocial outcomes in 123 children with brain tumors. Children with brain tumors were found to be at high risk of having a specific academic deficit, particularly id arithmetic. Children with arithmetic deficit evidenced a higher rate of impairment on nonverbal tasks than on verbal tasks, whereas children with reading deficit evidenced a higher rate of impairment on verbal tasks than on nonverbal tasks. However, significant differences between children with arithmetic and reading deficits were not found for all of the component features of the NLD syndrome, and arithmetic deficit was not related to treatment with irradiation.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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