Social Skills, Academic Achievement, and Behavioural Adjustment: Differences between Students with Learning Disabilities and Typically Developing Students
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17488137Keywords:
Learning Disability, Social Skills, Academic Achievement, Problem Behaviour, Social CompetenceAbstract
This quantitative causal comparison study aims to compare the social skills of students diagnosed with learning disabilities (LD) and their typically developing (TD) peersaged 7- 11 years in terms of age, gender, and grade level. The study group consisted of 261 students diagnosed with LD and 189 TD students in primary schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education. As a result , it was found that the social skills scores of the students in the TD group were statistically significantly higher than those of the LD group. In academic performance evaluations, it was also observed that the mean scores of TD students were significantly higherthan their LD peers. When behavioral problems were analyzed, it was supported by the data that individuals diagnosed with LD exhibited more intense adjustment problems than the TD group. Analyses based on gender revealed that girls' social interaction skills were more developed than boys.
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