This study examined the proposition that the high level of emotional and behavioural
problems in language disordered children was due to their low self-esteem, this
being due to the difficulties the children encountered because of their language
disorder. The Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale, Coopersmith
Inventory (school form) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Junior EPQ) were
administered to 14 children. The results of the present study did not find
significant differences between the mean scores of the language-disordered children
and the mean of the standardization samples on either the Piers-Harris or the
Coopersmith questionnaires.
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