Enhancing the reading fluency and comprehension of children with reading disabilities in an orthographically transparent language

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 291-305

  Snellings, Patrick ^a   van der Leij, Aryan ^a   de Jong, Peter F ^a   Blok, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceleration training; Children; Comprehension; Intervention; Reading disabilities; Reading fluency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; TEACHING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MALE; OVERLEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; REMEDIAL TEACHING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67650514219     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219408331038     Document Type: Article

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