A lab-controlled simulation of a letter-speech sound binding deficit in dyslexia

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 691-707

  Aravena, Sebastián ^a,b,c   Snellings, Patrick ^a,c   Tijms, Jurgen ^a,b,c   van der Molen, Maurits W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IWAL Institute   (Netherlands)

^c Amsterdam Center for Learning Disabilities (Expertisecentrum Leerproblemen)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial orthography; Dyslexia; Edugames; Implicit learning; Instructional approach; Letter speech sound binding deficit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84878556693     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.03.009     Document Type: Article

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