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Weekes, Brendan S.; Hamilton, Stephen; Oakhill, Jane V.; Holliday, Robyn E. – Cognition, 2008
Children with reading comprehension difficulties display impaired performance on semantic processing tasks. These impairments are assumed to reflect weaker knowledge about abstract semantic associations between words in poor comprehenders [Nation, K., & Snowling, M. (1999). Developmental differences in sensitivity to semantic relations among good…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Memory, Reading Difficulties
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Landerl, Karin; Bevan, Anna; Butterworth, Brian – Cognition, 2004
Thirty-one 8- and 9-year-old children selected for dyscalculia, reading difficulties or both, were compared to controls on a range of basic number processing tasks. Children with dyscalculia only had impaired performance on the tasks despite high-average performance on tests of IQ, vocabulary and working memory tasks. Children with reading…
Descriptors: Dyscalculia, Memory, Cognitive Ability, Reading Difficulties