Reading and Writing Disorders in Different Orthographic Systems

Even though Specific Reading Disability (Dyslexia) has been clinically recognized as a developmental learning disorder for nearly a hundred years. only within the past two decades it has become the subject of major experimental investigation. Because. by definition. dyslexic children are of average...

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Other Authors: Aaron, P. G. (Editor), Joshi, R.M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:NATO Science Series D:, Behavioural and Social Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Developmental Dyslexia: A Cognitive Developmental Perspective.
  • 2. Decoding Instruction Based on Word Structure and Origin.
  • 3. Orthographic Memory and Learning to Read.
  • 4. Relationship between Cognitive Development, Decoding Skill, and Reading Comprehension in Learning-Disabled Dutch Children.
  • 5. Cerebral Laterality in a Group of Danish Dyslexic Children.
  • 6. Dyslexia in the German Language.
  • 7. Developmental Dyslexia in French Language.
  • 8. The Italian Language: Developmental Reading and Writing Problems.
  • 9. Reading Errors in Spanish.
  • 10. The Phonological Factor in Reading and Spelling of Greek.
  • 11. A Linguistic Study of Reading and Writing Disorders in Turkish, an Agglutinative Language.
  • 12. Orthography and Reading of the Arabic Language.
  • 13. Hebrew Orthography and Dyslexia—A Note.
  • 14. Language Representation and Reading in Kannada — A South Indian Language.
  • 15. Linguistic Parameters in the Diagnosis of Dyslexia in Japanese and Chinese.
  • 16. Reading and Reading Difficulties in a Morphemic Script.
  • 17. Lexical Access Viewed from the Information Processing Approach: Reading and Writing (Data from Pathology).
  • 18. A Model of the Spelling Process: Evidence from Cognitively Impaired Subjects.
  • 19. Working Memory and Learning to Read.
  • 20. A Neuropsychological Model for the Role of Articulation in Verbal Short-term Memory and in Reading Comprehension.
  • 21. Mirror-Writing.
  • 22. Orthographic Systems and Developmental Dyslexia: A Reformulation of the Syndrome