Specific Learning Disability and Its Newest Definition: Which Is Comprehensive? and Which Is Insufficient?

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-33

  Scanlon, David ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

definition; DSM 5; learning disability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER;

ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS;

EID: 84870463431     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219412464342     Document Type: Article

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