The incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in Kuwait

Dyslexia

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 86-104

  Elbeheri, Gad ^a   Everatt, John ^b   Al Malki, Mohammad ^a  

^a Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabic; Dyslexia indicators; Learning disabilities; Literacy; Young offenders

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; KUWAIT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING DISORDER; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OFFENDER; PHONETICS; READING; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; KUWAIT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WRITING;

EID: 68049108340     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.361     Document Type: Article

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