Learning Disabilities and Learning Problems: Their Implications for the Juvenile Justice System

Abstract

Over the past thirty years, considerable time and effort have been expended and a great deal of money has been spent on the study of learning disabilities and learning problemstheir causes, effects, and possible remedies. For the purposes of this discussion, learning disabilities may be defined as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. A learning disabled child is not mentally retarded; hidher IQ range may compare favorably with that of hidher peers, while hidher performance level does not. In other LEARNING PROBLEMS,

An Ecological Examination of Factors That Impact Well‐Being Among Developmentally‐Disabled Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

“…Across several decades, research has consistently shown a high prevalence of youth with developmental disabilities in the juvenile justice system (Bernstein & Rulo, 1976;Fredericks, 1995;Moffitt, 1990;Quinn, Rutherford, Leone, Osher, & Poirier, 2005). In fact, disabilities are more than three times higher among justice-involved youth than the general population-approximately 65% to 70% of justice-involved youth meet disability criteria (Diaz et al, 2015).…”