Spatial Attention Disorders in Developmental Dyslexia: Towards the Prevention of Reading Acquisition Deficits

Visual Aspects of Dyslexia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Developmental; Magnocellular; Orthographic; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589814.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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