IQ is not strongly related to response to reading instruction: A meta-analytic interpretation

Exceptional Children

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-51

  Stuebing, Karla ^a   Barth, Amy ^a   Molfese, Peter ^a   Weiss, Brandon ^b   Fletcher, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

IQ; meta analysis; reading disabilities; reading intervention; response to intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650423672     PISSN: 00144029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001440290907600102     Document Type: Article

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