Predictive validity of the get ready to read! screener: Concurrent and long-term relations with reading-related skills

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-147

  Phillips, Beth M ^a   Lonigan, Christopher J ^a   Wyatt, Marcy A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Early literacy; Identification; Preschool age; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DYSLEXIA; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 61449137759     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219408326209     Document Type: Article

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