Working Memory and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Author(s): T. Packiam Alloway and S. E. Gathercole (Eds)
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1841695602
Format: hardback
306pp
Price: £39.95
Review Date: 21 November 2006
Review: This textbook brings together the current theoretical understanding and management of working memory deficits. It describes working memory profiles of people with a range of neurodevelopmental disorders (including Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, Specific Language Impairment, and ADHD). It also identifies ways of alleviating the anticipated learning difficulties of children who have deficits in working memory. There are chapters dealing with: dyslexia; reading disabilities; arithmetic learning difficulties; language impairment; developmental coordination disorder; ADHD; autism; Down syndrome; and Williams syndrome. The authors are from the UK, Canada, the USA, Australia and Italy.