Reading difficulties of Hindi-speaking children with developmental dyslexia

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 79-99

  Gupta, Ashum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Devanagari; Dyslexia; Hindi script; Orthographic transparency; Reading difficulties

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043079883     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:read.0000013823.56357.8b     Document Type: Article

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