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Interventions in Mathematics and Cognitive Skills
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate neurocognitive mechanisms underlying response to intervention aimed at enhancing, and remediating weaknesses in, numerical skills in children, including those with mathematical learning disabilities (MLD).
Official Title
Interventions in Math Learning Disabilities: Cognitive and Neural Correlates
Stanford Investigator(s)
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Elementary school aged children starting from first grade (6-12 years old)
2. IQ: Participants with a Full Scale IQ \> 70 on the Wechsler Abbreviated Scle of Intelligence (WASI-II).
3. Identification of Mathematical Learning Disabilities: Scores below the 35th percentile percentile on symbolic number processing test in Numeracy Screener and two or more Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-IV) math subtests
4. Identification of typically developing children: Scores at or above the 35th percentile percentile on symbolic number processing test in Numeracy Screener and all WIAT-IV math subtests
5. Normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no hearing impairments
6. Inclusion in MRI scan session: Right-handed
Exclusion Criteria:
1. History of neurological or psychiatric disorder (i.e., schizophrenia, psychosis, depression, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.)
2. History of trauma involving head injury
3. Consistent psychiatric medications
4. Exclusion from MRI scan session: No major contraindication for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - braces, metal implants, pacemakers, vascular stents, metallic ear tubes, consistent exposure to metal, claustrophobia)
Intervention(s):
other: Interventions in Mathematics and Cognitive Skills - Experimental
other: Interventions in Mathematics and Cognitive Skills - Active Comparator
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Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Vinod Menon, PhD
16507363699