This paper, though it deals with adult brain damaged patients, discusses a topic which is relative to the field of learning disabilities. Visual figure-ground discrimination and "aphasia-like" problems are present in so many children who suffer with a learning handicap that this study and its findings, will be of interest to many researchers.-C. C. E.
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