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The link between executive functions and literacy: introduction

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This special issue was born within the M2S Project (Mindfulness to students’ success: Relating executive functions and writing through a mindfulness app to promote children’s cognitive, social, and health-related outcomes) to call researchers and practitioners’ attention to the role that executive functions play on the acquisition and development of literacy skills, a neglected topic in the field. The selected papers include various methods and techniques to examine the relationships between literacy and executive functions across languages/cultures and different age groups, with and without disabilities.

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  1. Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 4200-392, Porto, Portugal

    Marisa Filipe, São Luís Castro & Teresa Limpo

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This research was supported by the M2S Project funded through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization, supported by FEDER and national funds allocated to the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-028404).

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Filipe, M., Castro, S.L. & Limpo, T. The link between executive functions and literacy: introduction. Read Writ 33, 807–812 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-020-10037-1

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