Page No 46-54
Nice Mary Francis P Immanuel Thomas
Prajyoti Niketan College, Kerala Kerala University,Thiruvananthapuram
The present study was designed to examine several memory processes in children
with specifi c developmental disorders of scholastic skills as defi ned by ICD-10. Eighty
(40 Learning Disabled and 40 non-Learning Disabled) fi fth to ninth graders between
9 and 15 years of age with a minimum IQ of 80 were compared on tests of memory
and working memory The performance of the LD group was found to be signifi cantly
lower than the performance of the control group in 8 of the 10 sub–tests selected for
the study. Working memory was measured in the verbal and visuo-spatial modalities.
In all the four sub tests, the performance of the LD group was found to be signifi cantly
lower than that of the control group. The results of the discriminant function analysis
showed that a combination of 3 memory tests alone could differentiate between the
two groups with 95% accuracy