Evaluation and Management of Learning Difficulties
Wender
Adolescent Medicine 7(2): 239-247
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 1041-3499 PMID: 10359971 Document Number: 465477
The "adolescent with learning difficulties" is a descriptive label that can refer to many different problems and causes for these problems. These can include specific learning disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders, other types of psychiatric disorders, reactions to stressful experiences, the result of temporary crises in development, or any combination of these. This article addresses causal factors, definitions, assessment, and treatment of learning difficulties in adolescents.