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      Impairment of Arabic- and Spoken-Number Processing in Children With Mathematical Learning Disability

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          The performance of 24 French-Quebec 8‒9-year-old children with Mathematical Learning Disability (MLD) in Arabic and spoken number recognition, comprehension and production tasks designed to assess symbolic number processing was compared to that of 37 typically developing children (TD). Children with MLD were less successful than TD children in every symbolic numerical task, including recognition of Arabic and spoken numbers. These results thus suggested that this deficit of symbolic number recognition could compromise symbolic number comprehension and production. Children with MLD also presented with general cognitive difficulties as reading difficulties. Taken together, our results clearly showed that children with MLD presented with a symbolic numerical processing deficit that could be largely attributed to their poorer written language skills.

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                Journal
                JNC
                J Numer Cogn
                Journal of Numerical Cognition
                J. Numer. Cogn.
                PsychOpen
                2363-8761
                2017
                30 January 2018
                : 3
                : 3
                : 620-641
                Affiliations
                [a ]Department of Rehabilitation, Université Laval , Québec, Canada
                Author notes
                [* ]1050 rue de la médecine, Faculté de médecine, Québec, G1V-0A6, Canada. Marie-Catherine.St-Pierre@ 123456rea.ulaval.ca
                Article
                jnc.v3i3.123
                10.5964/jnc.v3i3.123
                fc0bf1ba-6558-490e-8343-8735177d449d
                Copyright @ 2018

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 31 March 2017
                : 04 July 2017
                Categories
                Research Reports

                Psychology
                recognition,number sense access deficit,number sense deficit,Dyscalculia,symbolic,Mathematical Learning Disability

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