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Hitchcock, Caitlin; Westwell, Martin S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: We explored whether school-based Cogmed Working Memory Training (CWMT) may optimise both academic and psychological outcomes at school. Training of executive control skills may form a novel approach to enhancing processes that predict academic achievement, such as task-related attention, and thereby academic performance, but also has…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Short Term Memory, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Bennett, Emily; Heaton, Pamela – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Parents of 125 children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders completed a newly developed questionnaire aimed at identifying cognitive and behavioural characteristics associated with savant skills in this group. Factors distinguishing skilled individuals were then further investigated in case studies of three individuals…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Young Adults, Short Term Memory