Deaf college students' mathematical skills relative to morphological knowledge, reading level, and language proficiency

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-37

  Kelly, Ronald R ^a   Gaustad, Martha G ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICS; READING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; COGNITION; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICS; READING; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33845386767     PISSN: 10814159     EISSN: 14657325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enl012     Document Type: Article

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