Learning disabilities have lacked adequate etiological definition. The Canter Background Interference Procedure of the Bender Gestalt Test and the Quick Neurological Screening Test were found to discriminate neurological/organic signs in an adolescent learning disabled population. Up to this time there has been a paucity of adequate, relatively brief objective measures of organicity in this age range. Methodological problems, research needs, and implications for the use of these tests are discussed.
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