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Beginning readers outperform older disabled readers in learning to read words by sight

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Ehri, L.C., Saltmarsh, J. Beginning readers outperform older disabled readers in learning to read words by sight. Read Writ 7, 295–326 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03162082

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