The purpose of the present study was to assess the utility of different factor structures of the WISC-R in differentiating students with learning disability (LD) from children with emotional disturbance (ED). Based on several comparisons the results indicated that only the modified Kaufman's (1975) factor structure differentiated the two groups.
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