An Audit of the Processes Involved in Identifying and Assessing Bilingual Learners Suspected of Being Dyslexic: A Scottish Study

Dyslexia

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-41

  Deponio, Pamela ^a   Landon, John ^b   Mullin, Kirstine ^b   Reid, Gavin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Assessment; Bilingual learners; Dyslexia; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SCOTLAND; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033660865     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0909(200001/03)6:1<29::AID-DYS159>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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