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Specific reading disability as a maturational lag

Problems in conceptualization and communication in children with developmental alexia

  • Part I The Specific Language Disabilities: Conceptual Backgrounds
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  1. New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, New York University College of Medicine: Principal Research Scientist in Child Psychiatry, USA

    Lauretta Bender M.D. (Professor of Clinical Psychiatry)

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Reprinted from PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION, Chap. 11, pp. 155–176, published by Grune & Stratton, Inc., 1958, with permission. A talk given by Dr. Bender on this subject to the Orton Society was reviewed in the BULLETIN OF THE ORTON SOCIETY, Vol. VII, 1957, pp. 9–18.

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Bender, L. Specific reading disability as a maturational lag. Bulletin of the Orton Society 13, 25–44 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653606

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