Single-digit arithmetic in children with dyslexia

Dyslexia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-191

  Boets, Bart ^a,b   Smedt, Bert De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Fact retrieval; Phonological processing; Single digit arithmetic

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACHIEVEMENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONG TERM MEMORY; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; COGNITION; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954610371     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.403     Document Type: Article

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