A deficit in rime awareness in children with Down syndrome

Reading and Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 471-495

  Snowling, Margaret J ^a   Hulme, Charles ^a   Mercer, Robin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Letter knowledge; Phoneme detection; Reading ability; Rhyming ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043155206     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1016333021708     Document Type: Article

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