'Sit in the corner and don't eat the crayons': Postgraduates with dyslexia and the dominant 'lexic' discourse

Disability and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-19

  Collinson, Craig ^a   Penketh, Claire ^a  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Learner history; Literacy; Narratives; Postgraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 74949099508     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687590903363274     Document Type: Article

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