Learning disabilities is a subject that is usually associated  with school-aged children where the research and intervention  strategies are well known. Much less research has been done for  assessing and diagnosing older adolescents and adults in this area.  This work is an effort to provide a comprehensive review of what we  know about certain of these disorders, specifically:    language-based learning disorders;    nonverbal learning  disorders;    high-functioning autism;     attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and    mathematics  disorders      and how they manifest themselves in the later years  of development and maturity. A chapter addresses each one of these  disorders of learning. Included in each chapter is a discussion of  historical perspectives, definitions and diagnostic criteria,  incidence and prevalence data, comorbidity studies, pertinent research  from all relevant fields of study, reasonable accommodations in  academia as well as the workplace, and outcome data. This much-needed  review will be of interest to clinicians in neuropsychology,  educational psychology, and psychopharmacology.

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