On Learning Disabilities: Affective Considerations

Sometimes learning disabilities create emotional problems; in other cases, the emotional problems come first. Regardless, parents and teachers need to understand the complex interaction of organic and affective factors and the role that intrapsychic and interpersonal factors play in learning disabilities. Abrams defines and analyzes three major areas of learning disabilities within that context; his discussion includes problems of control and regulation of impulse, problems in perception and concept formation; and defective self‐concept.