Discrimination of Neurological Impairment in the Learning Disabled Adolescent

Abstract
Learning disabilities have lacked adequate etiological definition. The Canter Background Interference Procedure of the Bender Gestalt Test and the Quick Neurological Screening Test were found to discriminate neurological/organic signs in an adolescent learning disabled population. Up to this time there has been a paucity of adequate, relatively brief objective measures of organicity in this age range. Methodological problems, research needs, and implications for the use of these tests are discussed.