Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism

There are two interesting papers featured on the Journal of Educational Psychology web site.
The first looks at how being rejected by your peers early on in your school life can have a significant on later academic achievement. Such rejections plays an important part in the lives of many children with learning problems. Difficulties reading emotions and poor physical skills such as coordination can make the child an easy victim of school yard politics.
“Early peer rejection was associated with declining classroom participation and
increasing school avoidance, but different forms of chronic peer maltreatment mediated these relations. Whereas chronic peer exclusion principally mediated the link between peer rejection and classroom participation, chronic peer abuse primarily mediated the link between rejection and school avoidance. Children’s reduced classroom participation, more than gains in school avoidance, anteceded decrements in children’s achievement.“
The second article looks at children who develop reading difficulties later in their school carer and tries to establish why these children are not detected earlier.
“Was it the case that these students had earlier deficiencies that were overlooked in the primary grades, perhaps because these children displayed high intelligence, good behavior, or compensatory strategies? Or did these children actually not begin to have detectible difficulties until after third grade? The comparison of third grade with fourth- and fifth-grade achievement levels in Figure 1, although not definitive, is more consistent with the latter explanation.“.
Peer Exclusion and Victimization: Processes That Mediate the Relation Between Peer Group Rejection and Children’s Classroom Engagement and Achievement [PDF]
Late-Emerging Reading Disabilities [PDF]