Training reading fluency in dysfluent readers with high reading accuracy: Word specific effects but low transfer to untrained words

Annals of Dyslexia

Volumn 54, Issue , 2004, Pages 89-113

  Thaler, Verena ^a   Ebner, Eva Maria ^a   Wimmer, Heinz ^a   Landerl, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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EID: 4344607443     PISSN: 07369387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11881-004-0005-0     Document Type: Review

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