Diagnosing Learning Disabilities And Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Real-Life Situations
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Authors
Wenger-Schulman, Annie-Rosa Sara
Issue Date
2006
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Thesis
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en_US
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Five professionals (I neurophysiologist, 2 neuropsychologists, 2 psychotherapists), who
work with children who have Learning Disabilities (LDs) or Emotional and Behavioral
Disorders (E/B Ds) as defined by the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA,)
explain how they differentiate between these high-incidence disabilities. Their answers
were compared to existing literature and the diagnostic criteria from the DSM IV, which
illustrates that children with these disabilities show symptoms of multiple disorders and
therefore suggests diagnosis is difficult and often ambiguous. The professionals differed
in the techniques they found most effective in diagnosing children. The neurophysiologist
and the neuropsychologists, relied primarily on testing, whereas the
psychotherapists, found personal interviews to be more determinant in the diagnosis.
These discrepancies suggest that research into standardizing the criteria for diagnosing
both LDs and E/B Ds would be beneficial to the field.
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