Cultural factors affecting the differential performance of Israeli and Palestinian children on the Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 656-663

  Josman, Naomi ^a   Abdallah, Taisir M ^b   Engel Yeger, Batya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Child development; Culture; Factor analysis; Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA); School readiness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LOEWENSTEIN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PALESTINE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ARABS; CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LEARNING; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PSYCHOMETRICS; STUDENTS;

EID: 77950691699     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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