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Peer reviewedGombert, Jean-Emile – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2002
Discusses an experiment that links phonological awareness and reading performance in children with Down syndrome. Examines the results within the framework of the author's metalinguistic development theory in which alphabet reading is a pacemaker for the development of explicit phonological awareness. (PM)
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Elementary Education, Letters (Alphabet), Reading Achievement
