Early oral language markers of poor reading performance in Hong Kong Chinese children

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 322-331

  Liu, Phil D ^a   McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Wong, Anita M Y ^b   Tardif, Twila ^c   Stokes, Stephanie F ^d   Fletcher, Paul ^e   Shu, Hua ^f  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Articulation; Grammar; Phonological processing; Sentence imitation; Vocabulary knowledge

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; READING; RISK FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77954000755     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219410369084     Document Type: Article

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