Children with developmental reading disabilities (RD) frequently display impaired working
memory functioning. However, research has been divergent regarding the characteristics of …

In transparent orthographies like German, isolated learning disabilities in either reading or
spelling are common and occur as often as a combined reading and spelling disability …

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether changes in working memory (WM) of
children with reading disabilities (RD) were related to a domain-specific or a domain …

This chapter reviews some of our studies suggesting that children with average intelligence,
but reading disabilities (RD), suffer deficits in specific activities of the executive system …

The goals of this study were to explore the deficits in working memory associated with
literacy disorders (ie developmental disorders of reading and/or spelling) and the …

Recent theoretical advances in working memory guided analyses of cognitive measures in
122 children with dyslexia and their 200 affected biological parents in families with a …

Although reduced verbal span is well documented in individuals with developmental
dyslexia, the existing data on visual-spatial span are inconclusive. The aim of the present …

The purpose of this study was to determine the components of working memory (WM) that
underlie less skilled readers' comprehension and word recognition difficulties. Performance …

This investigation explores the contribution of two working memory systems (the articulatory
loop and the central executive) to the performance differences between learning-disabled …

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 …