Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10318117 | Research in Developmental Disabilities | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Children with learning disabilities demonstrate metaphor comprehension deficits. ⺠Children with LD underscored TD children in conventional and idiom comprehension. ⺠LD children performed equally well in visual and novel metaphor comprehension. ⺠In the LD group, analogical thinking facilitates visual metaphor comprehension ⺠In the TD group, metaphor comprehension correlates with semantic knowledge.
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Authors
Nira Mashal, Anat Kasirer,