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News & Views - Jun,
1995 Issue #34
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CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
(The following was taken from an essay by Pamela Darr Wright, LCSW, Richmond Virginia,
800-755-1357; E-Mail 75116.364@Compuserve.com; entitled From Emotions To Advocacy: The Parent's Journey, downloaded from CompuServe)
74% of children who are unsuccessful readers in the third grade are still unsuccessful readers
in the ninth grade. (Journal of Child Neurology, January, 1995)
Only 52% of students identified with learning disabilities will actually graduate with a
high school diploma. Learning disabled students drop out of high school at more than twice the rate of their non-disabled peers. (Congressional
Quarterly Researcher, December, 1993)
At least 50% of juvenile delinquents have undiagnosed, untreated learning disabilities.
(National Center for State Courts and the Educational Testing Service, 1977)
31% of adolescents with learning disabilities will be arrested within five years of leaving
high school. (National Transition Longitudinal Study, 1991)
Up to 60% of adolescents who receive treatment for substance abuse disorders have learning
disabilities (Hazelden Foundation, Minnesota, 1992)
62% of learning disabled students were unemployed one year after graduation. (National Longitudinal
Transition Study, 1991)
Copyright © 1995, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
without prior approval if the copyright notice and proper publication and author attribution accompanies the copy.)
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