Computer-assisted interventions targeting reading skills of children with reading disabilities - A longitudinal study

Dyslexia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-53

  Fälth, Linda ^a   Gustafson, Stefan ^b   Tjus, Tomas ^c   Heimann, Mikael ^b   Svensson, Idor ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

children; computer assisted intervention; longitudinal; reading disability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; TRAINING; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SWEDEN; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84872786210     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.1450     Document Type: Article

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