Dyslexia: Advances in Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Ingvar Lundberg, Finn Egil Tønnessen, Ingolv Austad (auth.), Ingvar Lundberg, Finn Egil Tønnessen, Ingolv Austad (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Series: Neuropsychology and Cognition 16
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A balanced view of recent research on reading disability is presented by leading international scholars representing various subdisciplines of psychology and allied sciences. The volume provides researchers, graduate students, educators and other professionals with up-dated and practical useful knowledge of and insights into the latest theories and findings of the nature and causes of reading disability. Rational guidelines for assessment, prevention and intervention are also provided, based on such concepts as phonological and orthographical processing, automaticity and metacognition. Several chapters are written without technical terminology, yet with scientific rigor, and should be readable by a wide audience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Editors’ Introduction....Pages 1-7
Towards a Sharper Definition of Dyslexia....Pages 9-29
Theories of Deficits in Dyslexia....Pages 31-43
A Connectionist Perspective on Reading and Its Difficulties....Pages 45-58
Cognitive Architecture of Early Reading....Pages 59-73
Automaticity, Automatization and Dyslexia....Pages 75-89
Awareness and Automaticity in Reading....Pages 91-100
Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Reading Development and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies....Pages 101-116
What Can We Learn from Dyslexia in Chinese?....Pages 117-139
Research on Reading Disabilities in the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center....Pages 141-150
Exclusion of Linkage to 1p, 6p and Chromosome 15 in a Large Norwegian Family with Dyslexia....Pages 151-156
Brain Markers of Dyslexia: Planum Temporale Asymmetry and Dichotic Listening to CV-Syllables....Pages 157-171
Developmental Dyslexia: The Role of the Cerebellum....Pages 173-196
Early Reading Problems: A Follow Up 20 Years Later....Pages 197-206
A Diagnostic Procedure Based on Reading Component Model....Pages 207-219
Component Model-Based Remedial Treatment of Reading Disabilities....Pages 221-244
Do Preschool Data Predict Resistance to Treatment in Phonological Awareness, Decoding and Spelling?....Pages 245-254
First Steps: A Program of Early Intervention....Pages 255-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-294

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Cognitive Psychology; Applied Linguistics