Exploring mathematics difficulties in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-130

  Rasmussen, Carmen ^a   Bisanz, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD); Mathematics; Number processing; Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749085997     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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