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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan E Gathercole; Tracy Packiam Alloway |
| ISBN: | 9781412936125 1412936128 1412936136 9781412936132 |
| OCLC Number: | 228192899 |
| Description: | xv, 124 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | What Is Working Memory? Working Memory in Childhood Working Memory and Learning Children with Working Memory Impairments Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders Assessing Working Memory Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children |
| Responsibility: | Susan E. Gathercole and Tracy Packiam Alloway. |
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'The authors have written a guide for practitioners that is both highly practical, and yet based upon sound theoretical principles...This book achieves a successful, yet often elusive, link between theory, research and practice, and deserves to have a high readership. I will have no hesitation in recommending it to a range of readers' - Jane Mott, Support for Learning 'This book fulfils its aim to explain working memory and the limits it places on children's classroom learning. For teachers it gives a very clear guide and fills a gap in understanding that can only lead to more child-centred approaches to teaching and learning' - Lynn Ambler, Support for Learning Read more...
