Acquisition of Mathematical and Linguistic Skills in Children With Learning Difficulties.

ABSTRACT: Comorbid learning difficulties in linguistic and mathematical skills often emerge in primary school age. The cause of coinciding of both learning difficulties during children's development spanning pre- and primary-school age is not yet well understood. To address this research gap, we used data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; n = 301) of four groups of children which were categorized according to their skill levels in pre-school age: children with learning difficulties isolated in linguistic skills (LD), children with learning difficulties isolated in mathematical skills (MD), children with learning difficulties combined in linguistic and mathematical skills (MD/LD), and children with typical development in both skills (TA). Computing univariate and repeated

SUBMITTER: Viesel-Nordmeyer N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8751487 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature