Inefficient psychoneurological skills may be the outstanding reason for scholastic failure in many intellectually normal young school children. This opinion is based upon the results of an ongoing survey of 1000 normal 5 to 7½ year old school children with a neurologically-oriented screening test designed to discriminate potential school failures. The test is called the Meeting Street School Screening Test for Learning Disorders (MSSST) and has undergone several revisions.
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