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Everyone who has tackled the problem of learning difficulties in children will agree on at least one thing. The problem is a damnably elusive one. It is not just that it poses the questions that are usually associated with other childhood disorders — questions about causes, treatment, and prognosis; it also raises some dilemmas which are peculiarly its own. We cannot even be sure who these children are, or by what criteria to recognize them. We know that they are there; we can be certain that their difficulty is serious and all too common. However, we are not yet sure exactly how to spot them.
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Bryant, P. (1982). The Next Moves. In: Das, J.P., Mulcahy, R.F., Wall, A.E. (eds) Theory and Research in Learning Disabilities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2157-4_14
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