Dyslexia

by Lundberg, Ingvar; Tonnessen, Finn Egil; Austad, Ingolv

• ISBN13: 9780792358374
• ISBN10: 0792358376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ingvar Lundberg is a professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Books that he has co-authored together with Torleiv H++ien have been standard textbooks throughout the Nordic countries, and their articles have appeared in leading international journals.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Editors' Introduction	1	(8)
Ingvar Lundberg
Finn Egil Tonnessen
Ingolv Austad
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
Towards a Sharper Definition of Dyslexia	9	(22)
Ingvar Lundberg
Theories of Deficits in Dyslexia	31	(14)
Torleiv Hoien
A Connectionist Perspective of Reading and its Difficulties	45	(14)
Margaret J. Snowling
Charles Hulme
Cognitive Architecture of Early Reading	59	(16)
Philip H. K. Seymour
Automaticity, Automatization and Dyslexia	75	(16)
Aryan van der Leij
Victor van Daal
Awareness and Automaticity in Reading	91	(10)
Finn Egil Tonnessen
Part II: The Impact of Orthography
Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Reading Development and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies	101	(16)
Usha Goswami
What Can We Learn from Dyslexia in Chinese?	117	(24)
Che Kan Leong
Part III: Biological Perspectives
Research on Reading Disabilities in the Colorado Learning Disability Research Center	141	(10)
Richard K. Olson
Exclusion of Linkage to 1p, 6p and Chromosome 15 in a Large Norwegian Family with Dyslexia	151	(6)
Toril Fagerheim
Finn Egil Tonnessen
Peter Raeymaekers
Herbert Lubs
Brain Markers of Dyslexia: Planum Temporale Asymmetry and Dichotic Listening to CV-Syllables	157	(16)
Kenneth Hugdahl
Einar Heiervang
Developmental Dyslexia: The Role of the Cerebellum	173	(24)
Roderick I. Nicolson
Angela J. Fawcett
Part IV: Diagnostics and Treatment
Early Reading Problems: A Follow up 20 Years Later	197	(10)
Ake Olofsson
A Diagnostic Procedure Based on Reading Component Model	207	(14)
R. Malatesha Joshi
Component Model-Based Remedial Treatment of Reading Disabilities	221	(24)
P. G. Aaron
Heidi Kotva
Do Pre-School Data Predict Resistance to Treatment in Phonological Awareness, Decoding and Spelling?	245	(10)
Pekka Niemi
Riitta Kinnunen
Elisa Poskiparta
Marja Vauras
First Steps: A Program of Early Intervention	255	(20)
Carol M. Santa
Author Index	275	(12)
Subject Index	287