Measuring Braille reading speed with the MNREAD test

Visual Impairment Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 131-145

  Legge, Gordon E ^a   Madison, Cindee M ^a   Mansfield, J Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 33845804513     PISSN: 1388235X     EISSN: 17445167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vimr.1.3.131.4438     Document Type: Article

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