Developmental coordination disorder: a review and update

JG Zwicker, C Missiuna, SR Harris, LA Boyd - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Present in approximately 5–6% of school-aged children, developmental coordination
disorder (DCD) is a neuromotor disability in which a child's motor coordination difficulties …

Working memory and specific language impairment: An update on the relation and perspectives on assessment and treatment

JW Montgomery, BM Magimairaj, MC Finney - 2010 - ASHA
Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate significant language
impairments despite normal-range hearing and nonverbal IQ. Many of these children also …

Investigating the predictive roles of working memory and IQ in academic attainment

TP Alloway, RG Alloway - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence for the relationship between working memory and academic
attainment. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether working memory is …

Verbal and visuospatial short‐term and working memory in children: Are they separable?

TP Alloway, SE Gathercole, SJ Pickering - Child development, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This study explored the structure of verbal and visuospatial short‐term and working memory
in children between ages 4 and 11 years. Multiple tasks measuring 4 different memory …

Behavioral self-regulation and executive function both predict visuomotor skills and early academic achievement

DR Becker, A Miao, R Duncan… - Early Childhood Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study explored direct and interactive effects between behavioral self-regulation
(SR) and two measures of executive function (EF, inhibitory control and working memory) …

The relationships among executive functions, metacognitive skills and educational achievement in 5 and 7 year-old children

D Bryce, D Whitebread, D Szűcs - Metacognition and Learning, 2015 - Springer
The relationship between executive functions (inhibitory control and working memory) and
metacognitive skills was investigated by applying correlational and regression analyses to …

The relation between cognitive and motor performance and their relevance for children's transition to school: A latent variable approach

CM Roebers, M Röthlisberger… - Human movement …, 2014 - Elsevier
Both theoretically and empirically there is a continuous interest in understanding the specific
relation between cognitive and motor development in childhood. In the present longitudinal …

Working memory in children with developmental disorders

TP Alloway, G Rajendran… - Journal of learning …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of the present study was to directly compare working memory skills across students
with different developmental disorders to investigate whether the uniqueness of their …

Working memory and executive function profiles of individuals with borderline intellectual functioning

TP Alloway - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background The aim of the present study was to investigate the following issues:(1) Do
students with borderline intellectual functioning have a pervasive pattern of impaired …

Visuospatial working memory in specific language impairment: A meta-analysis

B Vugs, J Cuperus, M Hendriks, L Verhoeven - Research in developmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
We conducted a meta-analysis of the data from studies comparing visuospatial working
memory (WM) in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing …