Cognitive Risk Factors for Specific Learning Disorder: Processing Speed, Temporal Processing, and Working Memory

Autor/inn/en	Moll, Kristina; Göbel, Silke M.; Gooch, Debbie; Landerl, Karin; Snowling, Margaret J.
Titel	Cognitive Risk Factors for Specific Learning Disorder: Processing Speed, Temporal Processing, and Working Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning Disabilities, 49 (2016) 3, S.272-281 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2194
DOI	10.1177/0022219414547221
Schlagwörter	Learning Disabilities; Comorbidity; Cognitive Processes; Neurological Impairments; Short Term Memory; Reading Difficulties; Mathematics; Cognitive Ability; Attention; Elementary School Students; Dyslexia; Foreign Countries; Achievement Tests; Questionnaires; Behavior Problems; Screening Tests; Child Behavior; United Kingdom (England); Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test; Wechsler Intelligence Scales Short Forms + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Mathematik; Denkfähigkeit; Aufmerksamkeit; Dyslexics; Legasthenie; Lese-Rechtschreib-Schwäche; Ausland; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Fragebogen; Screening-Verfahren; WIAT; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest
Abstract	High comorbidity rates between reading disorder (RD) and mathematics disorder (MD) indicate that, although the cognitive core deficits underlying these disorders are distinct, additional domain-general risk factors might be shared between the disorders. Three domain-general cognitive abilities were investigated in children with RD and MD: processing speed, temporal processing, and working memory. Since attention problems frequently co-occur with learning disorders, the study examined whether these three factors, which are known to be associated with attention problems, account for the comorbidity between these disorders. The sample comprised 99 primary school children in four groups: children with RD, children with MD, children with both disorders (RD+MD), and typically developing children (TD controls). Measures of processing speed, temporal processing, and memory were analyzed in a series of ANCOVAs including attention ratings as covariate. All three risk factors were associated with poor attention. After controlling for attention, associations with RD and MD differed: Although deficits in verbal memory were associated with both RD and MD, reduced processing speed was related to RD, but not MD; and the association with RD was restricted to processing speed for familiar nameable symbols. In contrast, impairments in temporal processing and visuospatial memory were associated with MD, but not RD. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01