How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice (Extraordinary Brain Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138991767 ISBN 13: 9781138991767

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book brings together in one volume information about the neurobiological, genetic, and behavioral bases of reading and reading disabilities. In recent years, research on assessment and treatment of reading disability (dyslexia) has become a magnet for the application of new techniques and technologies from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. This interdisciplinary fusion has yielded numerous and diverse findings regarding the brain basis of this syndrome, which are discussed in this volume by leading researchers. Intervention approaches based on such research are presented. The book also calls for research in specific directions, to encourage the field to continue moving into the bold frontier of how the brain reads.

The volume is essential reading for a range of researchers, clinicians, and other professionals interested in reading and reading disability, and also commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Extraordinary Brain Conferences hosted by The Dyslexia Foundation.

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About the Author

Ken Pugh, Peggy McCardle

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138991767
• ISBN 13: 9781138991767
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Pugh Ken, McCardle Peggy