Specific learning disability: The invisible handicap

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 315-319

  Karande, Sunil ^a   Kulkarni, Madhuri ^a  

^a LOKMANYA TILAK MUNICIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE AND GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 6; COMPETENCE; CONSULTATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSCALCULIA; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE LOCUS; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGIST; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 18644382084     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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