Arithmetic Difficulties in Children with Visuospatial Learning Disability (VLD)

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-183

  Venneri, Annalena ^a,c   Cornoldi, Cesare ^a,b   Garuti, Margherita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL CAPACITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRITING;

EID: 0142091227     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/chin.9.3.175.16454     Document Type: Article

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