A Comparison of Brain-Injured and Non-Brain-Injured Mentally Retarded Children on Several Psychological Variables

The Concept and Testing of Brain‐damage in Children: A Review

“…But it is not clear to what extent the variance is due to cerebral pathology or whether the considerable overlap in the distribution of scores contra-indicates the application of the test to individual cases. Gallagher (1957) found no significant difference in the number of correctly reproduced designs on an adaptation of the test, between a group of brain-injured (exogenous) and non-brain-injured (familial) mentally retarded children. However, an analysis of the distribution of scores showed that the first group was responsible for the majority of subjects in the lowest quartile, and most of the subjects in the highest quartile.…”

The Visual Perception of Cerebral Palsied Children

“…In some previous studies (Bensberg, 1952;Gallagher, 1957) brain-injured children were found to make particularly many reversal or rotation errors on visuomotor tests. Haipin (1955) on the other hand found that the level of performance on tests was frequently too poor for this to be established.…”

Visuoconstructive and verbal responses in chronic brain-damaged patients and familial retardates

“…This was less true of indeterminately unilateralized cases and not true of predominant left-sided cases. Wechsler verbal scale test items are perhaps more general in nature than the more specialized language tests of Gallagher ( 4 ) and especially Sievers (ll). It seems difficult, however, despite the possible limitations of omnibus testing, to believe that an organic group whose cortical abnormalities are, for the most part, confined to the minor hemisphere should be verbally inferior to a group whose language difficulties seemed sufficient for institutional commitment.…”