Educational interventions for children's learning difficulties

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 533-544

  Hulme, Charles ^a   Melby Lervåg, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decoding; Dyslexia; Mathematics disorder; Reading interventions; Reading problems; Specific language impairment; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952333309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118381953.ch41     Document Type: Chapter

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