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Reading Retardation, Dyslexia and Delinquency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. M. R. Critchley
E. M. R. Critchley*
Affiliation:
Preston Royal Infirmary. Lately, Department of Neurology, University College Hospital, London, and University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, U.S.A.
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In 1932 Monroe wrote that “inability to read may be one of the prolonged school problems to which parents and agencies become adapted until the child drifts into truancy and incorrigibility”. This observation, if true, is highly pertinent to the problems of present day society, and, for this reason, a personal study was made of delinquent boys between the ages of 12 and 17 years referred by the courts for assessment at a London Remand Home and Classifying Centre.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 517 , December 1968 , pp. 1537 - 1547
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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