Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities.

Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K.

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Publication Date: 1998

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Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities.

Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K.

Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, v13 n4 p220-32 Fall 1998

Summarizes recent studies identifying specific linguistic-cognitive markers for reading disabilities and describes efforts to develop measures of these markers in the areas of phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, and verbal short-term memory. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Dyslexia, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Phonology, Reading Difficulties, Screening Tests, Short Term Memory, Student Characteristics

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Language: English

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