Finding the Mole and Choosing the Apple: Executive Function Challenges in Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Background: Children with a developmental language disorder (DLD) frequently experience deficits in cognitive skills such as working memory (WM) and sustained attention (SA), which are closely related to language development. Yet, these cognitive deficits remain underexplored in early childhood, par...
| Publicado en: | Children Vol. 11; no. 12; pp. 1519 - 1530 |
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