Mathematics difficulties in children born very preterm: Current research and future directions

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Simms, Victoria ^a   Cragg, Lucy ^b   Gilmore, Camilla ^c   Marlow, Neil ^d   Johnson, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERVENTION STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING DISORDER; LEARNING STYLE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROIMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKILL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; NEONATOLOGY; NEURODEVELOPMENT;

COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LEARNING DISORDERS; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 84883488841     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303777     Document Type: Review

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