Poor Comprehenders in the Classroom: Teacher Ratings of Behavior in Children With Poor Reading Comprehension and Its Relationship With Individual Differences in Working Memory

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 199-207

  Pimperton, Hannah ^a,b   Nation, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

comprehension; reading; working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; READING;

EID: 84898913558     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219412454172     Document Type: Article

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