The Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC) (Boehm, 1971) was administered to 99 children (ages 7-10) who had been diagnosed as learning disabled and attended special schools in the New York area. It was hypothesized that the learning disabled children would exhibit a delay in the acquisition of the basic concepts, but would display a similar order of acquisition of the concepts as compared to the normative sample of the BTBC. The results indicated that the 7- to 9-year-old learning disabled (LD) children scored significantly lower than the normative sample of 7-year-old children. Kendall Correlations computed between the normative sample and the LD children indicated that the rank-order of difficulty of basic concept acquisition was similar in the two groups. Results supported the hypothesis that learning disabled children acquire basic concepts at a later age than normal. Subjects acquired concepts in the same order as the normative population. (Author/CL)