Levels of literacy among juvenile offenders: The incidence of specific reading difficulties

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 229-241

  Snowling, Margaret J ^a   Adams, John W ^b   Bowyer Crane, Claudine ^a   Tobin, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; DELINQUENCY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; READING; REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034465504     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.362     Document Type: Review

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