Project RABE 2
Risks and consequences of learning difficulties into early adulthood
The RABE 2 project investigates the persistence and psychosocial consequences of learning difficulties in school from primary school to early adulthood. The study focuses on the risks and effects of learning difficulties, but also looks at the resources of those affected.
Between 2011 and 2014, the IDeA Centre, in cooperation with the Universities of Hildesheim and Oldenburg, conducted the multi-centre longitudinal project BÄRENstark!, which examined the academic and cognitive development of children with and without learning difficulties from the end of second grade to the end of fifth grade.
In the follow-up study, RABE 2, the former participants in this study will be surveyed again in an online study around their eighteenth birthday. Although much is known about the symptoms and consequences of learning difficulties in childhood, there is a lack of research on how these difficulties develop into young adulthood.
The project therefore focuses on the persistence of learning difficulties diagnosed in the middle of primary school into early adulthood using standardised achievement tests. It also aims to clarify the extent to which socio-emotional abnormalities persist into early adulthood. The resources of the study participants will also be analysed.
Collaborators
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Grube, University of Oldenburg
Dr Kirsten Schuchardt, University of Hildesheim, Germany