The influence of working memory on reading growth in subgroups of children with reading disabilities

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 249-283

  Swanson, H Lee ^a   Jerman, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive processing; Fluency; Learning disabilities; Phonological processing; Processing; Reading; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMORBIDITY; DYSLEXIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 34147128627     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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