This paper reports a study contrasting dyslexic children against a control group of children
without special educational needs (SEN) and a group with varied SENs. Children's abilities …

Working memory impairments in dyslexia are well documented. However, research has
mostly been limited to the phonological domain, a modality in which people with dyslexia …

The second half of the chapter introduces the Baddeley and Hitch (1974) working memory
model and argues that although this model has been in existence for over 30 years, it has …

Specific working memory deficits have been documented for different learning disorders
(dyslexia, dyscalculia). Also children with attention deficit disorders (ADHD) have working …

There is long-standing evidence for verbal working memory impairments in both children
and adults with dyslexia. By contrast, spatial memory appears largely to be unimpaired. In …

This study investigated associations between working memory (measured by complex
memory tasks) and both reading and mathematics abilities, as well as the possible …

Background Children with learning disabilities are identified by their severe learning
problems and their deficient school achievement. On the other hand, children with sub …

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 …

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 aim of the two studies presented in this article was to examine working memory
performance in Dutch children with various subtypes of learning disabilities. The …