@article{5bb2c0bd6edb42609a37baccd159ac80,
title = "Head Injury and Later Reading Disability",
abstract = "Reading ability was studied in a sample of school-age children who had previously sustained a compound depressed fracture of the skull resulting in damage to the underlying cortex. A third of the children were found to have a reading age of at least 24 months behind their chronological age. Severe reading backwardness in children who had post-traumatic epilepsy was more common in boys than girls. Later reading disability was not found to be associated with site of injury. The high rate of reading backwardness in this group suggests the need for careful monitoring of educational progress after childhood head injury.",
author = "David Shaffer and Polly Bijur and Oliver, {F. D.} and Chadwick and Rutter, {Michael L.}",
note = "Funding Information: Dr. Shaffer is Professw of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. Ms. Bijur is Research Associate, Department of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University. Dr. Chadwick is Senior Staff Associate, Gertrude Sergievsky Center, Columbia University. Dr. Rutter is Professor of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behaviwal Sciences. Reprints may be requested from Dr. Shaffer at the Department of Child Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 St., New York, NY 10032. This work was made possible by grants from the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals Endowment Fund, the William T. Grant Foundation, NIMH Education Grant #2TOI MH077-I7, and Clinical Research Center Grant #30906 OI-AI. Dr. Rutter's Fellowship at the Centerfor Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences was supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Science Foundation (BNS 78-24671). During the preparation ofthis report Dr. Chadwick was recipient ofTraining Grant #5-T32-HD-Q7040-Q4 fromNICHD. 0002-7138/80/1904-0592 $01.58 {\textcopyright} 1980 American Academy of Child Psychiatry. Funding Information: Acknowledgment: The authors wish to acknowledge their gratitude to Dr. John McFie who is responsible for planning a larger study of focal brain lesions (supported by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation), which provided the opportunity for the present investigation of head injury. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "1980",
doi = "10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60964-X",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "19",
pages = "592--610",
journal = "Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry",
issn = "0002-7138",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "4",
}
