Negative life events predict performance on an executive function task in young adults with developmental disabilities.
Background Recent research with typically developing children indicates that chronic stress can be detrimental to the development of executive function. This study extends this work to individuals with developmental disabilities and examines the longitudinal relationship between an indicator of chro...
| Published in: | Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 59; no. 8; pp. 746 - 755 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2015
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