Cognitive and psychosocial characteristics of gifted students with written language disability

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 102-115

  Assouline, Susan G ^a   Nicpon, Megan Foley ^a   Whiteman, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disorder of written expression; Gifted students; Specific learning disabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749283791     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986209355974     Document Type: Article

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