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  • Title: Is a fact retrieval deficit the main characteristic of children with mathematical learning disabilities?
    Author: de Chambrier AF, Zesiger P.
    Journal: Acta Psychol (Amst); 2018 Oct; 190():95-102. PubMed ID: 30048856.
    Abstract:
    Although a fact retrieval deficit is widely considered to be the hallmark of children with mathematical learning disabilities (MLD), recent studies suggest that even adults use procedural strategies to solve small additions, except for ties that are unanimously considered to be solved by retrieval. Our study, based on how MLD children process ties and non-ties compared to typically developing (TD) children, sheds new light on their retrieval and procedural difficulties. Our results show that, by the end of the second grade, MLD children do not differ in their ability to solve the tie problems that are certainly solved by retrieval, but they do struggle with both small and large non-ties. These findings emphasize the extend of the difficulties that MLD children exhibit in procedural strategies relatively to retrieval ones.
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