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The following criteria were used to select 29 subjects of school age for this pilot study: (1) normal EEG: (2) no history of a convulsive disorder, diagnosis of CNS disease, or lateralizing signs; (3) normal intelligence; (4) learning disability severe enough to require admission to a special school or class for remedial work; and (5) sufficient psychologic testing to permit a judgment whether the learning disability was clearly due to “perceptual-motor deficits” (group A) or to “emotional factors” (group B). Sixteen of the 29 subjects have been tested for evoked auditory and visual potentials. Using the physiologic determinates developed by E. Roy John, an independent investigator, who did not know either the children or their clinical records, divided the children into 2 groups. The separation of the 16 individuals by the characteristics of evoked potentials corresponded to the group A and group B classification with only one exception.
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Baird, H., Mark, W., Spencer, D. et al. ALTERATIONS IN EVOKED RESPONSES IN CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITY: A DOUBLE BLIND STUDY. Pediatr Res 11, 560 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197704000-01143
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