Word reading and reading comprehension: Stability, overlap and independence

Reading and Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 539-558

  Betjemann, Rebecca S ^a   Willcutt, Erik G ^a   Olson, Richard K ^a   Keenan, Janice M ^b   Defries, John C ^a   Wadsworth, Sally J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior genetic; Etiology; Longitudinal; Reading comprehension; Stability; Word reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349124064     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9076-8     Document Type: Article

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