Training of perceptual unit processing in children with a reading disability

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-250

  Das Smaal, Edith A ^b   Klapwijk, Marjan J G ^b   Van Der Leij, Aryan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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EID: 0010247968     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532690xci1402_3     Document Type: Article

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