?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Psychological+Co+morbidity+in+Children+and+Adolescents+with+Learning+Disorders&rft.creator=Johnson%2C+Beena&rft.subject=Journal+of+Indian+Association+for+Child+and+Adolescent+Mental+Health&rft.description=Schools+play+a+crucial+and+formative+role+in+the+spheres+of+cognitive%2C+language%2C+emotional%2C%0Asocial+and+moral+development+of+a+child+(Kapur%2C+1995).+Academic+skills+such+as+reading%2C%0Awriting+and+mathematics+form+the+foundations+upon+which+a+student%E2%80%99s+performance+at%0Aschool+is+assessed.+A+learning+problem+may+therefore+engender+feelings+of+anxiety%2C%0Ainadequacy+and+shame%2C+leading+to+behavioral+disturbances+in+children+of+school+age.+Any%0Anegative+feedback+from+school+is+likely+to+have+an+impact+on+the%0Aemotional%2C+social+and+family+functioning+of+a+child.%0AChildren+with+learning+disorders+(LD)+are+those+who+exhibit+academic+difficulties+out+of%0Aproportion+to+their+intellectual+capacities.+They+have+impaired+ability+in+learning+the%0Aacademic+skills+of+reading%2C+writing%2C+arithmetic+or+spelling.+As+per+the+Diagnostic+and%0AStatistical+Manual+%E2%80%93+IV+(DSM-IV)+(American+Psychiatric+Association%2C+1994)+learning%0Adisorders+are+of+four+types%3A+Reading+disorder%2C+Mathematics+disorder%2C+Disorder+of+written%0Aexpression+and+Learning+disorder+not+otherwise+specified+(NOS).+Estimates+of+the%0Aprevalence+of+learning+disorders+range+from+2%25+to+10%25+depending+on+the+nature+of%0Aascertainment+and+the+definitions+applied+(APA%2C+1994).&rft.publisher=Indian+Association+for+Child+and+Adolescent+Mental+Health&rft.contributor=Sharma%2C+I&rft.contributor=Sagar%2C+Rajesh&rft.contributor=Srivastava%2C+Mona&rft.contributor=Johnson%2C+Beena&rft.date=2005-01&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4211%2F1%2FJiacam05_1_7.pdf&rft.identifier=++Johnson%2C+Beena++(2005)+Psychological+Co+morbidity+in+Children+and+Adolescents+with+Learning+Disorders.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4211%2F