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Callinan, Sarah; Theiler, Stephen; Cunningham, Everarda – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Traditionally, students with learning disabilities (LD) have been identified using an aptitude--achievement discrepancy or response to intervention approach. As profiles of the cognitive deficits of discrepancy-defined students with LD have already been developed using these approaches, these deficits can in turn be used to identify LD using the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Low Achievement, Cognitive Tests
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Rigoli, Daniela; Piek, Jan P.; Kane, Robert; Oosterlaan, Jaap – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
Aim: Research suggests important links between motor coordination and executive functions. The current study examined whether motor coordination predicts working memory, inhibition, and switching performance, extending previous research by accounting for attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptomatology and other confounding factors,…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Adolescents, Inhibition
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Jorm, Anthony F. – British Journal of Psychology, 1983
Examined research into the memory deficit of retarded readers within a working memory framework. Results showed fairly consistent evidence that reading retardation can be associated with a deficit in long-term storage of phonological information, which may affect retarded readers' ability to utilize the articulatory loop. (JAC)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries