Development and validation of a reading-related assessment battery in Malay for the purpose of dyslexia assessment

Annals of Dyslexia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-57

  Lee, Lay Wah ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Dyslexia and transparent orthography; Dyslexia assessment in Malay; Malay language; Phonological processing deficit; Validation of reading related tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MALAYSIA; MALE; READING; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALAYSIA; MALE; READING;

EID: 46349091489     PISSN: 07369387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11881-007-0011-0     Document Type: Article

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