Dyslexia Screening Measures and Bilingualism

Dyslexia

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 42-56

  Everatt, John ^a   Smythe, Ian ^a   Adams, Ewan ^a   Ocampo, Dina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia screening; English monolinguals; Phonological ability; Raven's matrices; Reading and spelling; Sequencing; Short term memory; Sylheti English bilinguals; Visual and motor skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033644292     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0909(200001/03)6:1<42::AID-DYS157>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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