Motor skills and cognitive abilities as a precursor of academic performance in children with and without DCD

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 1702-1707

  Asonitou, Katerina ^a   Koutsouki, Dimitra ^a   Charitou, Sofia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; DCD; Early identification; Evaluation; Information processing; PASS theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549288901     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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