“…Indeed, investigators have pointed out that youth with learning disabilities have difficulties, compared to nonhandicapped peers, in a variety of cognitive social problem-solving skills such as interpreting the mood or communications of others (e.g., Lerner, 1981), generating and choosing quality social solutions (e.g., , predicting and evaluating social consequences (e.g., Bruno, 1981;, interpreting situations (e.g., Pearl & Cosden, 1982), taking the perspective of others (e.g., Bachara, 1976), and controlling impulsive behavior (e.g., Hallahan, Kauffman, & Lloyd, 1985). Schumaker and her colleagues found that NLD adolescents scored significantly better on social cognitive problem solving than LD and delinquent youth, who scored similarly.…”