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Peer reviewedPollak, Jerrold M. – Adolescence, 1985
Presents case illustrations of five adolescents to demonstrate how parents can seek diagnosis of primary learning disability for nonlearning disabled children; how this diagnosis can be inappropriately used, and how the learning disability label can work as resistance by family when professional recommendations focus on need for individual or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Assessment, Family Problems, High Schools
