Phonological processing skills as predictors of literacy amongst arabic speaking Bahraini children

Dyslexia

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 269-291

  al Mannai, Haya ^a   Everatt, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grade 1 3 Bahraini children; Literacy in Arabic; Phonological processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; BAHRAIN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING;

AWARENESS; BAHRAIN; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 29444449181     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.303     Document Type: Article

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