title: The cross-cultural validity of the Learning Disability Index: a reanalysis of Mishra's data.
abstract: This study investigated the nature of a learning disability index (LDI) for the objective assessment of verbal-nonverbal patterns of intellectual deficit on the WISC-R. The Factor II score coefficients derived from an unrotated principal components analysis of the WISC-R normative data, in combination with the individual's (or group's) average scaled scores, are used for this purpose. The mean LDI of various groups of learning disabled children, including Mishra's (1984a; 1984b) Mexican-American and Papago groups, are shown to be reliably different from the mean LDI of the normative population and thus demonstrate its cross-cultural validity.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D011594:Psychometrics; D014481:United States; D014888:Wechsler Scales