Copying skills in relation to word reading and writing in Chinese children with and without dyslexia

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-433

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Chung, Kevin K H ^b   Tong, Xiuhong ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Calligraphy; Dictation; Morphological awareness; Orthographic processing; Rapid automatized naming; Visual skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; WRITING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; WRITING;

EID: 79960455841     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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