Drawing performance in children with special learning difficulties

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 487-497

  Mati Zissi, Heleni ^b   Zafiropoulou, Maria ^a   Bonoti, Fotini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

EID: 0032177317     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.2.487     Document Type: Article

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