Brain-Based Assessment and Instructional Intervention

Dyslexia in Context: Research, Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 90-119

  Berninger, Virginia W ^a,b  

^a NICHD funded Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Human brain; Literacy learning; Molecular biology; Reading disorders; Writing disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889484084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470777916.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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