Reading abilities in school-aged preterm children: A review and meta-analysis

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 410-419

  Kovachy, Vanessa N ^a   Adams, Jenna N ^a   Tamaresis, John S ^a   Feldman, Heidi M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT TEST; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY SILENT READING TEST; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; META ANALYSIS; PEABODY INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; READING COMPREHENSION; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WECHSLER INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST; WIDE RANGE ACHIEVEMENT TEST; WOODCOCK JOHNSON III TEST OF ACHIEVEMENT; WOODCOCK JOHNSON TEST OF ACHIEVEMENT; WOODCOCK JOHNSON TEST OF COGNITIVE ABILITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING;

EID: 84927572046     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12652     Document Type: Review

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