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Shalev, Ruth S.; Manor, Orly; Kerem, Batsheva; Ayali, Mady; Badichi, Navah; Friedlander, Yechiel; Gross-Tsur, Varda – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2001
Siblings and parents of 39 children with dyscalculia were assessed for arithmetic, reading, and attention disorders. Findings indicated a familial prevalence of dyscalculia almost tenfold higher than expected for the general population and suggest that dyscalculia, like other learning disabilities, has a significant familial aggregation,…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Dyscalculia
Landerl, Karin; Bevan, Anna; Butterworth, Brian – Cognition, 2004
Thirty-one 8- and 9-year-old children selected for dyscalculia, reading difficulties or both, were compared to controls on a range of basic number processing tasks. Children with dyscalculia only had impaired performance on the tasks despite high-average performance on tests of IQ, vocabulary and working memory tasks. Children with reading…
Descriptors: Dyscalculia, Memory, Cognitive Ability, Reading Difficulties
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Evans, Roy; Goodman, Kathy – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Analyzes the factors behind children's learning difficulties in mathematics from three kinds of characteristics: characteristics of the child, of the teacher/teaching method, and of the subject. Suggests that perceived underachievement comes mainly from poor self-image, learning style, poor language skills, dyslexic-type difficulties, lack of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cognitive Style, Dyscalculia, Early Childhood Education
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Shafrir, Uri; Siegel, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This study found that 331 Toronto (Ontario, Canada) adolescent and adult subjects with learning disabilities could be grouped into three subtypes: (1) arithmetic disability, (2) reading disability, and (3) reading and arithmetic disabilities. Each group differed significantly from the others on tests of reading, spelling, memory, and other…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classification, Cognitive Tests, Disability Identification