Differential Effects of Orthographic Transparency on Dyslexia: Word reading difficulty for common English words

Dyslexia

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 217-228

  Spencer, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCINTISCANNING; WRITING;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WRITING;

EID: 0035495848     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.207     Document Type: Article

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