The purposes of the present study were to estimate the prevalence of learning disabilities in the elementary school children and to identify the behavioral characteristics of learning disabled children.
The standardized school achievement tests for Korean and arithmetic, intelligence test and the Myklebust´s pupil Rating Scale(1981) were used as instruments.
In the study, the students with general IQ above 80 but obtained Z-scores lower than-2were regarded as learning disabled children. It was found in the study that the prevalence of learning disab1ed children among 2662(boys 1397, girls 1265) in grade 3 from 18 elementary schools located in various areas in Taegu city and Kyung Sang Buk Do was 102(boys 55, girls 47), 3.83%.
The Comparison of behavioral characteristics reflected on the Mykhebust´s scale between learning disabled and non-disabled students were significantly different on the all of the 24 subscales of the measurement. The most significant differences were found on the orientation and spoken language subscales. Thus, learnieg disabled children were characterized by their poor abilities in finding places, conceptual judgement, time concept and expression in spoken language.
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