Effect of intensive training on auditory processing and reading skills

Brain and Language

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-25

  Agnew, John A ^a   Dorn, Courtney ^a   Eden, Guinevere F ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Language; Reading; Remediation; Specific language impairment; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; STANDARDIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 0348047406     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00157-3     Document Type: Article

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