Examining the link between working memory behaviour and academic attainment in children with ADHD

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 632-636

  Alloway, Tracy Packiam ^a   Gathercole, Susan E ^b   Elliott, Julian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY RATING SCALE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; WRITING;

EID: 77954648868     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03603.x     Document Type: Article

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