Using errorless learning to treat letter-by-letter reading: Contrasting word versus letter-based therapy

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 619-642

  Sage, Karen ^a   Hesketh, Anne ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALEXIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28844473469     PISSN: 09602011     EISSN: 14640694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09602010443000155     Document Type: Article

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