Learning to Read: What We Know and What We Need to Understand Better

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Hulme, Charles ^a   Snowling, Margaret J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c St John's College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causes; Decoding; Dyslexia; Intervention; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873646637     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12005     Document Type: Article

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