PURPOSE: to analyze features in a case of dyslexia with childhood depression. METHODS: description of evaluation's results in a disciplinary case with dyslexia and depression. This study comprised a child, masculine gender, with 10 years and 7 months, studying the 4th year of the Elementary Teaching in a public school. RESULTS: the results of this study evidenced alterations not only in language, where there are difficulties in the phonological information processing, as well as in attention and executive functions and comorbidity of childhood depression. CONCLUSION: the study revealed the need for evaluation by an interdisciplinary team for a precise diagnosis and, consequently a better intervention in children with dyslexia and their co-morbidities.
Dyslexia; Evaluation; Depression; Comorbidity
