The utility of math difficulties, internalized psychopathology, and visual-spatial deficits to identify children with the nonverbal learning disability syndrome: Evidence for a visualspatial disability

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-146

  Forrest, Bonny J ^a  

^a Wildwood Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL DISEASE; NONVERBAL LEARNING DISABILITY SYNDROME; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TOUCH; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 4744339524     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297040490911131     Document Type: Article

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