Learning Disability is Not a Defense to Delinquent Acts

• Date: 01 June 1986
• Published date: 01 June 1986
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6988.1986.tb00580.x

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Chapter

7

Learning

Disability is

Not

a

Defense

to

Delinquent

Acts

As

regards

interfacing

with

the juvenile justice system, it must

be

pointed

out

that the existence

of

a

learning disability in any given child

is

not

an

explanatory excuse

or

mitigating rationalization which

would

relieve the child

of

the social

consequences

of

his

behavior

or

remove the

focus

of

control

from

self

to

society. The delineation

of

it

learning disability is rather

a

description

of

the

process in which

a

given child interacts with his academic

as

vvell

as

social

environment, focusing on the specific components of

his

information

processing

skills.

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&

Frvnily

Court

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