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The Source for Nonverbal Learning Disorders, by Sue Thompson. Published in 1997 by LinguiSystems, East Moline, IL, 182 pages, $49.75.
With the advent of federal legislation in the 1970s and 1980s, the problem of learning disabilities came to the forefront as an explanation for the school difficulties experienced by many apparently normally intelligent children. Initially, the legal definitions of learning disabilities seemed to be inclusive of most problems that were being observed in schools-difficulties with reading, mathematics, spelling, writing, or speaking. Numerous programs were established to assist affected children in achieving academic success. However, investigators began to note that many children, whose testing revealed normal skill levels in those areas legally defined as constituting learning disabilities, still seemed to have difficulty in the school environment. Various explanations surfaced to describe the problems experienced by this group of children. Right-hemisphere learning disability was the term...