Aro, Tuija Neittaanmäki, Reeta Korhonen, Elisa Riihimäki, Heli Torppa, Minna
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Journal of learning disabilities
The present study examined whether learning disabilities (LD) in reading and/or math (i.e., reading disability [RD], math disability [MD], and RD+MD) co-occur with other diagnoses. The data comprised a clinical sample (n = 430) with LD identified in childhood and a sample of matched controls (n = 2,140). Their medical diagnoses (according to the In...
Berch, Daniel B
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Journal of learning disabilities
In this commentary, I examine some of the distinctive, foundational difficulties in learning fractions and other types of rational numbers encountered by students with a mathematical learning disability and how these differ from the struggles experienced by students classified as low achieving in math. I discuss evidence indicating that students wi...
De Weerdt, Frauke Desoete, Annemie Roeyers, Herbert
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Journal of learning disabilities
Elementary school children with reading disabilities (RD; n = 17), mathematical disabilities (MD; n = 22), or combined reading and mathematical disabilities (RD+MD; n = 28) were compared to average achieving (AA; n = 45) peers on working memory measures. On all working memory components, 2 (RD vs. no RD) × 2 (MD vs. no MD) factorial ANCOVAs reveale...
De Weerdt, Frauke
Orrantia Rodríguez, José Múñez Méndez, David Matilla Cordero, Laura Fernández Sánchez, María
Before formal schooling, children solve word problems with informal strategies modeling directly the situation described in the text of the problem. When problems do not allow to use such strategies, children need to apply the conceptual knowledge (commutativity, inversion...) needed to solve the problem. In the current study, students of secondary...
Jonsson, Ylva Lindqvist, Ellinor
Dyskalkyli, eller specifik räknesvårighet, är en specifik inlärningsstörning som innebärstora svårigheter att handskas med siffror. Detta är en kvalitativ intervjustudie medföräldrar till ungdomar med dyskalkyli, där frågor kring skolgång, insatser och känslorkring diagnosen samt relationen mellan förälder och ungdom berörs. Åtta föräldrar, allamöd...
Raghubar, Kimberly Cirino, Paul Barnes, Marcia Ewing-Cobbs, Linda Fletcher, Jack Fuchs, Lynn
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Journal of learning disabilities
Errors in written multi-digit computation were investigated in children with math difficulties. Third- and fourth-grade children (n = 291) with coexisting math and reading difficulties, math difficulties, reading difficulties, or no learning difficulties were compared. A second analysis compared those with severe math learning difficulties, low ave...
De Smedt, Bert; 40938; Reynvoet, Bert; 47096; Swillen, Ann; 40725; Verschaffel, Lieven; 4575; Boets, Bart; 32380; Ghesquière, Pol; 4944;
It has been suggested that mathematical disabilities (MD) emerge as a consequence of impairments in basic number processing skills. The aim of the present study was to investigate basic number processing skills in children with Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS), a common genetic disorder with a high prevalence of MD, and to examine whether these b...
