A twin study of the etiology of high reading ability

Reading and Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 683-707

  Boada, Richard ^a   Willcutt, Erik G ^b   Tunick, Rachel A ^a   Chhabildas, Nomita A ^a   Olson, Richard K ^b   Defries, John C ^b   Pennington, Bruce F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral genetics; Orthographic coding; Phonological processing; Skilled reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144396067     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1020965331768     Document Type: Article

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