What the visual word recognition skills of prelingually deafened readers tell about their reading comprehension problems

Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-121

  Miller, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Deafness; Reading; Reading comprehension; Syntactic processing; Word recognition skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750806557     PISSN: 1056263X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10882-006-9002-z     Document Type: Article

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