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Dyslexia: Biology, Cognition and Intervention
ISBN: 978-1-86156-035-3
Paperback
302 pages
June 1997
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Contributors.

Preface.

Chapter 1 Brain, Mind and Behaviour in Dyslexia - Uta Frith.

Chapter 2 Genetic Aetiologies of Reading and Spelling Deficits: Developmental Differences - J.C. DeFries, Maricela Alarcon and Ricahrd K. Olson.

Chapter 3 Dyslexia and Gyral Morphology Variation - George W. Hynd and Jennifer R. Hiemenz.

Chapter 4 How Does a Visual Transient Deficit Affect Reading? - John H. Hogbden.

Chapter 5 The Development of Developmental Dyslexia - John L. Locke, James Hodgson, Paul Macaruso, Jennifer Roberts, Susan Lambrecht-Smith and Cathy Guttentag.

Chapter 6 In search of the Precursors of Dyslexia: A prespective Study of Children at Risk for Reading Problems - Heikki Lyytinen.

Chapter 7 Progress in the Search for Dyslexia Sub-types - Keith E. Stanovich, Linda S. Siegel and Alexandra Gottardo.

Chapter 8 Learning to Read in Different Orthographies: Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Representations and Dyslexia - Usha Goswami.

Chapter 9 Language, Phonology and Learning to Read - Margaret J. Snowling and Kate A. Nation.

Chapter 10 Academic Outcomes of Language Impaired Children - Paula Tallal, Lee Allard, Steve Miller and Susan Curtiss.

Chapter 11 How do Speech and Language Problems affect Literacy Development? - Joy Stackhosue and Bill Wells.

Chapter 12 Achieving Competence in Language and Literacy by Training in Phonemic Awareness, Concept Imagery and Comparator Function - Patricia Lindamood, Nanci Bell and Phyllis Lindamood.

Chapter 13 Prevention of Dyslexia in Kindergarten: Effects of Phoneme Awareness Training with Children of Dyslexic Parents - Ina Borstrom and Carsten Elbro.

Chapter 14 Teaching Phonological Awareness With and Without the Computer - Barbara W. Wise, Richard K. Olson and Jerry Ring.

Subject Index.

Author Index.