Reading Acquisition, Cognitive and Visual Development, and Self-esteem in Four Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment

Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 741-754

  Ek, Ulla ^a   Fellenius, Kerstin ^a   Jacobson, Lena ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; READING; SELF ESTEEM; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WRITING;

EID: 0346887195     PISSN: 0145482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145482x0309701202     Document Type: Article

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