The relationship between reading Comprehension, Working memory and language in children with cochlear implants

Acta Neuropsychologica

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 163-186

  Asker Árnason, Lena ^a   Wass, Malin ^b   Ibertsson, Tina ^a   Lyxell, Björn ^b   Sahlén, Birgitta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hearing impairment; Lexical access; Phonological processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349375806     PISSN: 17307503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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