Calculation difficulties in children of very low birthweight: a neural correlate.
Learning difficulties, including problems with numeracy, are common in Western populations. Many children with learning difficulty are survivors of preterm birth. Although some of these children have neurological disabilities, many are neurologically normal, and the latter group provides us with an...
| Publicado en: | Brain: A Journal of Neurology Vol. 124; no. 9; pp. 1701 - 1708 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2001
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