Recent developments in language acquisition and reading research:The phonological basis of children's reading difficulties

Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-31

  Bowey, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

dyslexia; phonological processing; Reading; speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983312975     PISSN: 08165122     EISSN: 18392504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0816512200028017     Document Type: Article

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