Identification and overidentification of specific learning disabilities (dyslexia) in GREECE

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 55-69

  Anastasiou, Dimitris ^a   Polychronopoulou, Stavroula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 67650648196     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/27740357     Document Type: Article

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