Reliability and validity of the CTOPP Elision and Blending Words subtests for struggling adult readers

Reading and Writing

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1603-1618

  Nanda, Alice O ^a   Greenberg, Daphne ^a   Morris, Robin D ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult literacy; CTOPP; Learning disability; Phonological awareness; Reading; Test reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897350946     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: 15730905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-014-9509-0     Document Type: Article

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