The importance of working memory for school achievement in primary school children with intellectual or learning disabilities.
Background: Given the well-known relation between intelligence and school achievement we expect children with normal intelligence to perform well at school and those with intelligence deficits to meet learning problems. But, contrary to these expectations, some children do not perform according to t...
| Publicado en: | Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 58; pp. 1 - 9 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Nov2016
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