Word recognition and basic cognitive processes among reading-disabled and normal readers in Arabic

Reading and Writing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 423-442

  Abu Rabia, Salim ^a   Share, David ^a   Mansour, Maysaloon Said ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabic dyslexia; Arabic morphology; Arabic phonology; Basic cognitive processes; Dyslexia in different orthographies

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943082725     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024237415143     Document Type: Article

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