The writing brain of normal child writers and children with writing disabilities: Generating ideas and transcribing them through the orthographic loop

Writing: A Mosaic of New Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-105

  Richards, Todd L ^a   Virginia, W Berninger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203808481     Document Type: Chapter

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