Developmental dyscalculia: Prevalence and demographic features

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-33

  Gross Tsur, Varda ^a   Manor, Orly ^b   Shalev, Ruth S ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0030040918     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1996.tb15029.x     Document Type: Article

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