Reading and dyslexia in different orthographies / edited by Nicola Brunswick, Sine McDougall and Paul de Mornay Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brunswick, Nicola, 1970-

McDougall, Siné, 1958-

De Mornay Davies, Paul, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading disability.

Dyslexic children--Education.

Dyslexic children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Psychology Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and developmental dyslexia in alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages. The book brings together contributions from a group of leading literacy researchers from around the world. It begins by examining the development of language skills in monolingual speakers of alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages;

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Editors and contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Section 1: The development of reading skills in different orthographies; 1 Reading and dyslexia in different orthographies: An introduction and overview; 2 A psycholinguistic grain size view of reading acquisition across languages; 3 Phonological development from a cross-linguistic perspective; 4 Letter position encoding across deep and transparent orthographies; 5 Differences in reading ability between children attending Welsh- and English-speaking primary schools in Wales

6 Writing a language that you can't hearSection 2: Developmental dyslexia in different orthographies; 7 Unimpaired reading development and dyslexia across different languages; 8 Reading acquisition and dyslexia in Spanish; 9 Lexical reading in Italian developmental dyslexic readers; 10 Dyslexia in Chinese: Implications for connectionist models of reading; 11 Dyslexia in biscriptal readers; Section 3: Neuroimaging studies of reading in different orthographies

12 Cross-cultural differences in unimpaired and dyslexic reading: Behavioural and functional anatomical observations in readers of regular and irregular orthographies13 Lexical retrieval in alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts: Evidence from brain imaging; Glossary; Author index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-16780-X

1-135-16781-8

1-282-63978-1

9786612639784

0-203-85846-8

9780203858462

OCLC:

642661594