Functional deficits in phonological working memory in children with intellectual disabilities

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1934-1940

  Schuchardt, Kirsten ^a   Maehler, Claudia ^a   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distortion effect; Intellectual disability; Phonological working memory; Similarity effect; Storage capacity effect; Word length effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHONETICS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RETARDATION; PHONETICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79958288583     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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