Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery—Children's Revision: Concurrent validity with three learning disability subtypes.

Abstract

Concurrent validity of the Luria-Nebraska Psychological Battery-Children's Revision (LNNB-C) was studied in 82 learning disabled children who were divided into three groups according to Verbal and Performance IQ differences on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). The three groups, comparable in age and on WISC-R Full-Scale IQ scores, were designated auditorylinguistic (Verbal IQ < Performance IQ), visual-spatial (Performance IQ < Verbal IQ), and mixed (Verbal IQ = Performance IQ). A multivariate analysis of variance revealed no significant overall differences in LNNB-C subtest scores between the three subtype groups. In addition, exploratory univariate analyses of variance indicated no significant differences between groups on any of the 11 LNNB-C subtests. These results failed to support the validity of the LNNB-C in discriminating between learning disability patterns when general intelligence is controlled.The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery-Children's Revision (LNNB-C;Golden, 1981Golden, , 1984 was designed for use with children from 8 to 12 years of age. Several recent studies have assessed the validity of the LNNB-C in discriminating between various groups, including normal, brain-damaged, learning disabled, and psychiatrically disordered children (Can;

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“…It is the purpose of ].his paper to point out a distinction between two subgroups that has implications for both the diagnosis and remediation of reading disability. Morgan and Brown (1988) found no relationship between behaviorally developed groups and scores on the Luria Nebraska battery. For example, Mattis, French and Rapin (1975) reported three groups and Doehring, Honshko, and Byans (1 979) distinguished four types.…”