Concurrent and longitudinal neuropsychological contributors to written language expression in first and second grade students

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-252

  Hooper, Stephen R ^a   Costa, Lara Jeane ^a   McBee, Matthew ^b   Anderson, Kathleen L ^a   Yerby, Donna C ^a   Knuth, Sean B ^a   Childress, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuropsychological contributors to written language; Neuropsychological predictors of early written language; Written expression in early elementary school; Written language development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951558282     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9263-x     Document Type: Article

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