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Names: Snowling, Margaret J., editor. | Hulme, Charles, editor. | Nation, Kate, editor.
Title: The science of reading : a handbook / edited by Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, and Kate Nation.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Series: Wiley Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022008020 (print) | LCCN 2022008021 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119705093 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119705123 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119705130 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Reading. | Reading‐‐Research. | Reading, Psychology of.
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List of Contributors
Suzanne M. Adlof Associate Professor Doctoral Program Coordinator Communication Sciences and Disorders Arnold School of Public Health University of South Carolina 1705 College St., 2nd Floor Columbia SC 29208 USA
Marc Brysbaert Department of Experimental Psychology Ghent University Henri Dunantlaan 2 9000 Gent Belgium
Kate Cain Department of Psychology Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YF UK
Markéta Caravolas School Human and Behavioural Science Bangor University Gwynedd LL57 2DG UK
Anne Castles Department of Psychological Sciences & Macquaire Centre for Reading Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia
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