Language, Reading, and Math Learning Profiles in an Epidemiological Sample of School Age Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Archibald, Lisa M D ^a   Oram Cardy, Janis ^a   Joanisse, Marc F ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANADA; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHONETICS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MATHEMATICS; ONTARIO; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84885406719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077463     Document Type: Article

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