E-Readers Are More Effective than Paper for Some with Dyslexia

Matthew H. Schneps; Jenny M. Thomson; Chen Chen; Gerhard Sonnert; Marc Pomplun

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075634

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E-Readers Are More Effective than Paper for Some with Dyslexia

Matthew H. Schneps ,

* E-mail: mschneps@cfa.harvard.edu

Affiliation Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jenny M. Thomson,

Affiliation Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Chen Chen,

Affiliations Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Gerhard Sonnert,

Affiliation Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Marc Pomplun

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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E-Readers Are More Effective than Paper for Some with Dyslexia

Matthew H. Schneps,
Jenny M. Thomson,
Chen Chen,
Gerhard Sonnert,
Marc Pomplun

Published: September 18, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075634

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