Findings from the International Adult Literacy Survey on the incidence and correlates of learning disabilities in New Zealand: Is something rotten in the State of New Zealand?

Dyslexia

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-98

  Chapman, James W ^a   Tunmer, William E ^a   Allen, Raewyn ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATION; READING; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0037900834     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.238     Document Type: Article

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