Working memory functioning in children with learning disabilities: Does intelligence make a difference?

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-10

  Maehler, Claudia ^a   Schuchardt, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intellectual disabilities; Learning disabilities; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHONETICS; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57749184132     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2008.01105.x     Document Type: Article

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