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Childhood Cancer and Vulnerability for Significant Academic Underachievement

Jeanne Ott is from the Akron Public Schools and received her MS degree from the University of Akron. She presently is assigned to head the educational component of an interdisciplinary hematology-oncology team at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (CHMCA).

Thomas E. Webb, PhD

Thomas Webb received his PhD degree in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1968 and is chief psychologist for the Division of Pediatric Psychiatry at CHMCA.Address: Thomas E. Webb PhD, Division of Pediatric Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, 281 Locust St., Akron. OH 44308.

Catherine A. Anderson, BSN

Catherine Anderson graduated from Kent State University with a BSN degree in 1975 and is in pediatric nursing at CHMCA.

Joseph E. Kastelic, MD

Joseph Kastelic received his MD degree in 1959 from St. Louis University and specializes in hematology and oncology at CHMCA.

Carl E. Krill, Jr., MD

Carl Krill receved his MD degree in 1959 from the University of Pennsylvania and serves as director of the Hematology Division as well as heading this interdisciplinary team.

Learning difficulties related to childhood cancer with its intense physical and psychosocial stresses are examined by comparison of 22 oncology patients and 22 children referred for psychiatric/psychological evaluation. Findings demonstrate, among children undergoing treatment of cancer, some academic vulnerabilities for which psychosocial aspects may not fully account and which become prominent under comparisons of within-subject differences between normalized scores of the WISC-R Verbal IQ and the PIAT Reading (p < .05) or Spelling (p < .01) subtests. Moreover, when members of the oncology group, who had already been placed in learning disabilities programs, were added to those defined as significantly underachieving by McLeod's method, it appeared that nearly a third of the oncology sample were encountering marked academic inhibitions.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 15, No. 6, 363-365 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/002221948201500613


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