Building upon earlier attempts to create a scientific basis for subtypes of learning disabili~ties, this volume continues to examine the extent to which various subtyping schemes are valid. Like its predecessor, Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities: Essentials of Subtype Analysis, it seeks to define such subtypes within an explicitly neuropsychol~ogical framework. Following an insightful over~view of the dimensions and clinical applications of validity to learning disability subtypes, it reports on a wide-ranging series of investigations
designed to designate the content, concurrent, predictive, construct, and clinical validity of various subtyping efforts.
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Part I: Introduction. Rourke, Overview of Learning Disability Subtypes.
Part II: Theory and Methodology. Adams, Theoretical, Methodological, and
Statistical Issues. Fletcher, Satz, Cluster Analysis and the Search for
Learning Disability Subtypes. Joschko, Rourke, Neuropsychological Subtypes of
Learning-Disabled Children Who Exhibit the ACID Pattern on the WISC. Del
Dotto, Rourke, Subtypes of Left-Handed Learning-Disabled Children. Part III:
Reading, Spelling, and Arithmetic Disability Subtypes. Doehring, Reading
Disability Subtypes: Interactions of Reading and Nonreading Deficits.
Sweeney, Rourke, Spelling Disability Subtypes. Strang, Rourke, Arithmetic
Disability Subtypes: The Neuropsychological Significance of Specific
Arithmetical Impairment in Childhood. Part IV: Validity Studies of Learning
Disability Subtypes. Fletcher, External Validation of Learning Disability
Typologies. Van der Vlugt, Satz, Subgroups and Subtypes of Learning-Disabled
and Normal Children: A Cross-Cultural Replication. Lyon, Educational
Validation Studies of Learning Disability Subtypes. Part V: Personality and
Socioemotional Dimensions of Learning Disabilities in Children. Porter,
Rourke, Socioemotional Functioning of Learning-Disabled Children: A Subtypal
Analysis of Personality Patterns. Ozols, Rourke, Dimensions of Social
Sensitivity in Two Types of Learning-Disabled Children. Strang, Rourke,
Adaptive Behavior of Children Who Exhibit Specific Arithmetic Disabilities
and Associated Neuropsychological Abilities and Deficits. Part VI: Summary
and Conclusions. Fisk, Finnell, Rourke, Major Findings and Future Directions
for Learning Disability Subtype Analyses.
