Journal article
Arithmetic Processing in Children With Spina Bifida
Abstract
Three studies compared 98 children with spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM)-a disorder associated with high rates of math disability and spatial deficits-to 94 typically developing children on multidigit subtraction and cognitive addition tasks. Children with SBM were classified into those with reading decoding and math disability, only math disability, and no reading or math disability. Study 1 showed that visual-spatial errors in multidigit …
Authors
Barnes MA; Wilkinson M; Khemani E; Boudesquie A; Dennis M; Fletcher JM
Journal
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 174–187
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
March 2006
DOI
10.1177/00222194060390020601
ISSN
0022-2194