Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find the cognitive characteristics of 4th, 5th, 6th grade children with reading disability reflected in K-WISC-III. According to K-WISC-III full IQ score and the result of reading ability test, the reading disability group (n=26) and the norma1 group (n=22) were selected. The results are as follows. First, the reading disability group showed that verbal IQ score was lower than performance IQ score and was significant differences of verbal IQ - performance IQ discrepancy between the reading disability group and the norma1 group. Second, comparing with the normal group, the reading disability group demonstrated significantly poor performance on subtest of Information, Similarities, Digit span but, significantly rich performance on subtest of Symbol search. Through discriminant function analysis, the one discriminant function was yield and the 81 % of original group was correctly classified. Third, comparing with normal group, reading disability group demonstrated significantly poor performance on index of verbal comprehension(VC), Freedom from Distractibility(FD) but, significantly rich performance on index of Processing Speed(PS). Through discriminant function analysis, the one discriminant function was yield and the 72.9% of original group was correctly classified.