Working memory functioning in children with learning disorders and specific language impairment

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 298-312

  Schuchardt, Kirsten ^a   Bockmann, Ann Katrin ^a   Bornemann, Galina ^a   Maehler, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined disorder of scholastic skills; Dyslexia; Learning disorder; Specific language impairment; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887890514     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TLD.0000437943.41140.36     Document Type: Article

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