Learning disabilities associated with lesser brain damage.

Summary In an habilitation program for brain-damaged children it has been found that children with little motor involvement merge with children who have no demonstrable motor handicap in presenting perceptual difficulty in areas of speech, hearing, writing, reading, memory, understanding, obeying oral commands, and in the control of activity. When not understood and dealt with properly, these deficits interfere with intellectual accomplishments. They cause emotional maladjustment and disturbance in socialization. This group is salvageable and deserve the combined efforts of physicians, psychiatrists, and educators as well as the ancillary discipline to help them attain their optimum development.