Learning Disabilities in Older Adolescents and Adults

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Reading and Writing Disorders

   Pages 1-42

3. Mathematics Disorder

   Pages 43-67

4. Nonverbal Learning Disability

   Pages 69-104

5. ADHD

   Pages 105-148

6. High Functioning Autism

   Pages 149-178

7. Concluding Thoughts

   Pages 179-183

8. Back Matter

   Pages 185-241

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Learning disabilities is a subject that is usually associated with school-aged children where the research and intervention strategies are well known. Much less research has been done for assessing and diagnosing older adolescents and adults in this area. This work is an effort to provide a comprehensive review of what we know about certain of these disorders, specifically:

• language-based learning disorders;
• nonverbal learning disorders;
• high-functioning autism;
• attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and
• mathematics disorders

and how they manifest themselves in the later years of development and maturity. A chapter addresses each one of these disorders of learning. Included in each chapter is a discussion of historical perspectives, definitions and diagnostic criteria, incidence and prevalence data, comorbidity studies, pertinent research from all relevant fields of study, reasonable accommodations in academia as well as the workplace, and outcome data. This much-needed review will be of interest to clinicians in neuropsychology, educational psychology, and psychopharmacology.

• Psychopharmacology
• attention
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• hyperactivity
• intervention
• neuropsychology

• Landmark College, Putney

  Lynda J. Katz

• VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

  Gerald Goldstein

• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

  Sue R. Beers

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