Understanding Normal and Impaired Reading Development: A Working Memory Perspective

Working Memory and Education

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 33-60

  De Jong, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012554465-8/50004-1     Document Type: Chapter

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