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ERIC Number: EJ579532
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2194
Language Problems in Children with Learning Disabilities: Do They Interfere with Maternal Communication?.
Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Ahonen, Timo; Narhi, Vesa; Lyytinen, Paula; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v32 n1 p22-35 Jan-Feb 1999
Eight school-aged boys with learning disabilities (LD) with a discrepancy between verbal and performance IQ and with more language difficulties were less successful on a mother/child problem-solving task. Their mothers exhibited lower communication clarity in their instructions to the children than the mothers of the eight boys with LD who did not have such a discrepancy. (CR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Environment, Intelligence Quotient, Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Performance, Problem Solving, Verbal Ability, Verbal Communication
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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