“…Maltreatment has been found to affect older students' academic and related outcomes (Courtney, Roderick, Smithgall, Gladden, & Nagaoka, 2004;Wodarski, Kurtz, Gaudin, & Howing, 1990). More intense or longlasting maltreatment was found to be associated with low grade point averages and problems com pleting homework assignments, though the impact was moderated by cognitive deficits (Slade & Wissow, 2007). Courtney, Terao, and Bost (2004) reported that older maltreated adolescents were three or four grade levels behind in reading abilities and that, compared with their nonmaltreated peers, significantly more had repeated at least one grade.…”