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Depression and Learning Disabilities in Children

A Test of an Hypothesis

Hartmut B. Mokros received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is currently assistant professor in the Department of Communication, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, at Rutgers University.

Elva O. Poznanski, MD

Elva O. Poznanski received her MD from McGill University. She is currently chief of the Section of Child Psychiatry at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.

William A. Merrick

William A. Merrick is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. Address: Hartmut B. Mokros, Department of Communications, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08903.

Performance-Verbal IQ discrepancy scores are compared for 27 depressed and 15 nondepressed children all of whom experienced learning difficulties. Brumbach (1985) reported a significant association between depression and Performance IQ deficits for children with learning difficulties. In contrast to Brumbach's finding, no difference was observed in Performance IQ deficit between depressed and nondepressed children in the current study. Moreover, only 10% of depressed children showed such a deficit. This result differed significantly from Brumbach's findings (34%). Implications of these results are discussed within the context of nascent interest in the relationship between depression and learning disabilities.

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