The comprehension of 50 logico-grammatical sentences was assessed for 30 learning disabled adolescents ranging in age from 12 to 16 yr. Performances were compared with existing data for normative age peers. A significant proportion of the learning disabled children exhibited quantitative reductions. Performances correlated positively and significantly with age scores for Psycholinguistic Age, Auditory Association, Reception, Sequential Memory, and Manual Expression (ITPA). The findings suggest that the experimental test may be used to identify deficits in processing linguistic concepts by adolescents with learning disabilities.
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