Course extract: Executive functions in childhood: development and disorder

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This course taster is taken from the Open University’s ‘Child Development’ course (ED209). It is an extract from one of the four course text books (Hughes, C., Graham, A., and Grayson, A. (2004) ‘Executive functions in childhood: development and disorder’, in Oates, J. and Grayson, A. (eds) Cognitive and Language Development in Children, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005

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