AUTHOR=Mammarella Irene C. , Meneghetti Chiara , Pazzaglia Francesca , Cornoldi Cesare TITLE=Memory and comprehension deficits in spatial descriptions of children with non-verbal and reading disabilities JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=5 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01534 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01534 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The present study investigated the difficulties encountered by children with non-verbal learning disability (NLD) and reading disability (RD) when processing spatial information derived from descriptions, based on the assumption that both groups should find it more difficult than matched controls, but for different reasons, i.e., due to a memory encoding difficulty in cases of RD and to spatial information comprehension problems in cases of NLD. Spatial descriptions from both survey and route perspectives were presented to 9–12-year-old children divided into three groups: NLD (