A splinter skill is said to exist when a ____

a. person's language ability is extraordinarily good but his or her motor and visual abilities are extremely poor
b. child does very well on one or more isolated spatial and rote memory tasks but poorly on those requiring language
c. person can develop a relationship with an inanimate object but not with a person
d. child can retain information for only a short period of time


b

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