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Learning Disabilities and Adolescent Suicide

Hazel E. A. McBride

Hazel E. A. McBride, PhD, conducts research in the areas of learning disabilities, suicide, and depression in the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky. Address: Hazel E. A. McBride, PO Box 1565, Hazard, KY 41702.

Linda S. Siegel

Linda S. Siegel, PhD, is the Dorothy C. Lam Professor of Special Education at the University of British Columbia. She has conducted research in the areas of learning disabilities, cognition and language development, psychological assessment, reading, prematurity, and the evaluation of atrisk children.

To investigate the hypothesis that learning disabilities (LD) play a part in adolescent suicide, all available suicide notes (n = 27) from 267 consecutive adolescent suicides were analyzed for spelling and handwriting errors. The suicide notes were dictated to adolescents with LD and adolescent non-LD controls. The results showed that 89% of the 27 adolescents who committed suicide had significant deficits in spelling and handwriting that were similar to those of the adolescents with LD, and they were significantly more impaired than the non-LD adolescents and older adults (65 and older) who had committed suicide in the same time period and in the same geographical area.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 30, No. 6, 652-659 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949703000609
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