Task-specific training, learning, and memory for children with developmental coordination disorder: A pilot study

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 473-480

  Alloway, Tracy Packiam ^a   Warner, Claire ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; EXERCISE MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 57449090318     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.107.2.473-480     Document Type: Article

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