Psychometric testingof school-age children

• Homeless, sheltered children (age 6 - 12) performed more than one standard deviation below general population on tests of:

verbal ability (WISC-revised vocabulary)

reading (WRAT-R)

• Only 30% of the homeless children were reading at age level

Parker RM et al. A Survey of the Health of Homeless Children in Philadelphia

Shelters. AJDC 145:520-526 (1991).

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