WISC-IV Unusual Digit Span Performance in a Sample of Adolescents With Learning Disabilities

Applied Neuropsychology: Child

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 152-160

  Harrison, Allyson G ^a   Armstrong, Irene ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

adolescents; assessment; Digit Span; effort testing; embedded measures; symptom validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84898545604     PISSN: 21622965     EISSN: 21622973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2012.753570     Document Type: Article

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