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Irene C Mammarella1, Marta Ghisi2, Monica Bomba3, Gioia Bottesi2, Sara Caviola4, Fiorenza Broggi3, Renata Nacinovich3.
Abstract
The main goal of the present study was to shed further light on the psychological characteristics of children with different learning disability profiles aged between 8 and 11 years, attending from third to sixth grade. Specifically, children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD), reading disabilities (RD), or a typical development (TD) were tested. In all, 15 children with NLD, 15 with RD, and 15 with TD were administered self-report questionnaires to assess different types of anxiety and depression symptoms. Both NLD and RD children reported experiencing more generalized and social anxiety than TD, the NLD children reported more severe anxiety about school and separation than TD, and the children with RD had worse depressive symptoms than those with NLD or TD. © Hammill Institute on Disabilities 2014.Entities:
Keywords: anxiety; depression; nonverbal learning disability; reading disability
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24733818 DOI: 10.1177/0022219414529336
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Learn Disabil ISSN: 0022-2194