Text composition by deaf and hearing middle-school students: The role of working memory

Reading and Writing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 333-360

  Alamargot, Denis ^a   Lambert, Eric ^b   Thebault, Claire ^c   Dansac, Christophe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Institute for Deaf Children   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Deafness; Spelling; Text production; Working memory; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247847738     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9033-y     Document Type: Article

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