Does IQ matter in adolescents' reading disability?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-261

  Kortteinen, Hanna ^a   Närhi, Vesa ^a   Ahonen, Timo ^b  

^a Niilo Maki Instituutti   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

IQ; Reading disability

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649147626     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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