Evidence of nonverbal learning disability among learning disabled boys with sensory integrative dysfunction

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 979-987

  Humphries, Tom ^a   Krekewich, Karla ^b   Snider, Laurie ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Hospital for Sick Children

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0030162549     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3.979     Document Type: Article

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