Overview
- Includes contributions from pioneers and leading researchers in the field
- Covers theories on reading and dyslexia as well as remediation approaches
- Follows approaches from basic perception to higher order functions
Part of the book series: Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 16)
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Reading is one of the most intriguing feats human evolution ever came up with. There is no evolutionary basis for reading as such; reading is secondary to language and the result of a complex skill acquisition at the end of which almost all pre-existing cognitive functions are mobilized. With the right instruction and practice most people learn this skill smoothly. Some, however, have problems, despite same opportunities and general cognitive abilities. This developmental dyslexia results from a neuro developmental disorder leading to deficits in reading relevant information processing. But what deficits are these, and can they be trained?
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Literacy Acquisition and Skilled Reading in Different Orthographies
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Developmental Dyslexia: From Basic Functions to Higher Order Cognition
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading and Dyslexia
Book Subtitle: From Basic Functions to Higher Order Cognition
Editors: Thomas Lachmann, Tina Weis
Series Title: Literacy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90805-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90804-5Published: 08 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08105-8Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90805-2Published: 28 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2214-000X
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 339
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics