A Linguistic Approach To The Study Of Dyslexia

Author : Gloria Cappelli,Sabrina Noccetti
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800415980

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A Linguistic Approach to the Study of Dyslexia by Gloria Cappelli,Sabrina Noccetti Pdf

This volume contributes to the growing body of research on developmental dyslexia, focusing on the disorder’s behavioural manifestations at different levels of the language system. It is organised into three sections that cover the three main vantage points from which the effects of dyslexia on communication can be observed: neuropsychology, linguistics and the perspective of educators. Together, the chapters provide an insightful overview of the ways in which dyslexia impacts different components of language, including lexical and pragmatic abilities, and present data from experimental and applied research, with suggestions for the application of research-based data in both innovative and traditional language teaching, ways to rehabilitate reading dysfunctions, as well as teacher training. The book will be essential reading for researchers and students investigating dyslexia, as well as foreign language teachers and professionals who work on the rehabilitation of linguistic performance dysfunctions in people with dyslexia.

Author : Monika Lodej
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443898126

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Dyslexia in First and Foreign Language Learning by Monika Lodej Pdf

According to International Educational Statistics (2008), there are total of 654.9 million school-age children in the world. If dyslexia affects 10–15% of these youth (Fletcher et al. 2007), this translates to approximately 65–98 million students with difficulties in reading and writing. The EU strategic plan for education (2010) recognises the need for EU citizens to speak a foreign language. As such, foreign language courses are introduced on an obligatory basis at the primary level of education. Dyslexic students are not exempt from this regulation, and, thus, are confronted with different language systems that must be mastered. The difficulty here escalates if the systems differ significantly in their levels of orthographic transparency. Reading and writing are operationalised by the same biological functions that are defined by the universal perspective. However, language systems differ in terms of their transparency; for example, English and French are considered opaque scripts, whereas Spanish and Italian are described as transparent orthographies. These differences are discussed in this book as part of the language specific perspective, which can, in turn, raise questions such as: “Is a dyslexic student equally impaired in any language they study?” and “Is the type of difficulty primarily dependent on the language system or is it rather a dyslexia syndrome?” This volume provides answers through a synthesis of research on reading difficulties in first and foreign languages and existing taxonomies of dyslexia sub-types.

Author : Carol A. Kamara
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781597567336

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Neurolinguistic Approach to Reading by Carol A. Kamara Pdf

Author : Ludo Verhoeven,Charles Perfetti,Kenneth Pugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108428774

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Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems by Ludo Verhoeven,Charles Perfetti,Kenneth Pugh Pdf

The first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia.

Author : Prathibha Karanth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441989239

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Cross-Linguistic Study of Acquired Reading Disorders by Prathibha Karanth Pdf

This volume focuses on cross-linguistic studies of the acquired disorders of reading and what they can tell us about the models of reading and the human brain. The author has compiled a source-book on cross-linguistic studies of reading disorders with data from the alphasyllabaries of India, in addition to showing the implications of these findings on the understanding of reading, its acquisition, and the developmental and acquired reading disorders and their management.

Author : Martin Turner,John Rack
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780306485343

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The Study of Dyslexia by Martin Turner,John Rack Pdf

In long-ago 1999, the Dyslexia Institute and Plenum Press conceived a plan for two books which would gather the best of current knowledge and practice in dyslexia studies. This would benefit those—but not only those—many individuals who train with us, acquiring a postgraduate certificate and diploma with our higher education partner, the University of York. Since then, the century changed, the hinge of history creaked and Plenum was taken over by Kluwer Academic Publishers, but the first of the pair, Dyslexia in Practice, emerged quickly and on schedule (Townend and Turner, 2000). Written by staff and close associates of the Institute, its chapters were produced under close scrutiny and with the expedition of a command economy. To our delight, the book has seen a success which went beyond the dreams of its editors: it has been adopted by other courses similar to our own and is widely referred to. The same was never likely to be true of The Study of Dyslexia, which was envisaged as a theoretical companion volume written by authors and researchers of international repute. Nearly five years after the idea first took shape, this second volume now arrives to complete the enterprise, but it has been a very different project.

Author : C.K. Leong,R.M. Joshi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401712415

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Developmental and Acquired Dyslexia by C.K. Leong,R.M. Joshi Pdf

This volume on neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspectives of dyslexia and alexia is based on the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held towards the end of 1991. The book, consisting of sixteen chapters from cognitive neuropsychologists and neurolinguists from different countries, is divided into three parts addressing the following issues: Part I: Neuropsychological substrates; Part II: Case studies, and Part III: Computational and linguistic approaches. The contributors are from England and Wales, different parts of Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Russia. This volume and the companion volume Reading Disabilities: Diagnosis and Component Processes (Kluwer, 1993) are helpful to researchers in the fields of literacy and cognitive neuropsychology. It is intended for researchers, clinicians, university professors, senior or post-graduate students in psychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology, educational psychology, and special education.

Author : Anna Cardinaletti,Chiara Branchini,Giuliana Giusti,Francesca Volpato
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527556782

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Language Acquisition, Processing and Bilingualism by Anna Cardinaletti,Chiara Branchini,Giuliana Giusti,Francesca Volpato Pdf

Bringing together selected papers from the conference “The Romance Turn VII” held in Venice in October 2015, this volume focuses on a broad range of topics at the heart of the current debate on language acquisition, including clitic pronouns, left-dislocations, passives, relative clauses, and wh-questions. It explores these topics within a range of different acquisition settings, such as L1 and L2 acquisition, bilingualism, typical and atypical development. In addition to syntax, the volume covers other modules of grammar, namely, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology, and adds a perspective on language processing to current discussions on the acquisition of Romance languages. This book also includes contributions on atypical language acquisition in cases of deafness and on language intervention based on formal linguistics. It will appeal not only to scholars and students interested in the nature and processes behind first, second and bilingual language acquisition, and impaired language acquisition, but also to language educators and clinicians.

Author : Hans-Jörgen Gjessing,Bjorn Karlsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441987044

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A Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia by Hans-Jörgen Gjessing,Bjorn Karlsen Pdf

Psychological and educational researchers in the Scandinavian countries have cooperated in a research effort relating to children's learning disabilities for more than a decade. Support has come from the federal governments and other funding agencies in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark through the Secretariat for Scan dinavian Cultural Cooperation. A number of independent studies have already been published, dealing with various aspects oflearning disabilities in the literacy skills of reading and writing. The largest and most comprehensive study was the Bergen Project, a longitudi nal study of an entire cohort of children, with special emphasis on those who developed specific learning disabilities in reading and writing (dyslexia). These dyslexic children were studied, diagnosed, and treated over a period of nine years, along with various control and comparison groups, which included a large subgroup with general learning disabilities (retarded). The Bergen Project involved the collection of voluminous data. The children were identified by means of special diagnostic tests and treated using remedial materials and techniques that had been developed to deal with various types of dyslexia. The ophthalmology team not only tested the children, but they also prescribed and provided glasses, and even performed surgery when necessary. The pediatric neurologists did general pediatric and neurological examinations, following up many of the cases with EEGs and CT (computerized tomography, brain x-rays).

Author : Gavin Reid,Angela Fawcett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470778012

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Dyslexia in Context by Gavin Reid,Angela Fawcett Pdf

This book highlights the most recent developments in the area of research, policy and practice. All the authors are well known in the field of dyslexia and they will offer significant contributions at the forthcoming BDA conference ' Dyslexia: the dividends from research to policy and practice' to be held at Warwick University in March 2004. In addition to the opening chapter, which provides an overview of developments in dyslexia, there are also chapters on the research associated with neurological factors, the cerebellum, genetics and the links between research and practice. The policy section provides insights into policy developments from Europe, the UK and the United States, as well as polic developments relating to both children and adults. The practice section is comprehensive with chapters on multilingualism, the range of specific learning difficulties, ICT, mathematics, the implications for the classroom from the science of learning and the features of dyslexia friendly schools.

Author : Elaine Funnell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317774983

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Case Studies in Neuropsychology of Reading by Elaine Funnell Pdf

Each chapter represents a personal account of a reading disorder through which details of the features of the disorder, methods used for testing, and theoretical accounts are illustrated. Controversies are explained, theories evaluated and anomalies pointed out. From this emerges a picture of the central properties of each disorder and the contribution of each to our understanding of the reading system as a whole. However, the picture is not complete: loose threads tantalise, some findings are hard to explain, and some newly controversial theories are put forward. The intention is to provide information that will help to equip the reader with the knowledge and expertise necessary to take the study of these reading disorders forward.

Author : Evelin Witruk,Angela D. Friederici,Thomas Lachmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461510116

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Basic Functions of Language, Reading and Reading Disability by Evelin Witruk,Angela D. Friederici,Thomas Lachmann Pdf

This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. It concentrates on basic cognitive functions of understanding and producing language and disorders within its spoken and written execution. The book grew out of the Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders conference (Leipzig, Sept. 1999).

Author : Patience Thomson,Peter Gilchrist
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Dyslexia
ISBN : 0748757937

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Dyslexia by Patience Thomson,Peter Gilchrist Pdf

Dyslexia is a distressing disability that effects many children and adults causing much concern among parents and those working with the individuals concerned. This book outlines and develops a multidisciplinary model for the education of dyslexic children.

Author : Lindsay Peer,Gavin Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317482963

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Multilingualism, Literacy and Dyslexia by Lindsay Peer,Gavin Reid Pdf

This fully revised new edition provides advice on the identification, assessment and support of bilingual learners and assists practitioners in identifying the difference between literacy difficulties due to bilingualism or multilingualism and dyslexia. An essential text for staff development, it includes innovative approaches in technology and teaching programmes beneficial to multilingual learners and advice on learning additional languages. With contributions from experts from across the globe, this book will provide guidance on key themes, including: the assessment of multilingual learners the impact of dyslexia on bilingualism the literacy challenges facing learners from Indigenous cultures the role of the SENCO in identifying children with English as an additional language and Dyslexia the emotional needs of learners with bi/multilingualism and Dyslexia This book will provide guidance to anyone involved in literacy development and language learning. With the increase in international schools around the globe and the ever growing desire for parents to ensure that their children become proficient in English, this book will appeal to teachers, teaching assistants, specialists, and all other practitioners who work with bi/multilingual children.

Author : Joanna Nijakowska
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694003

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Dyslexia in the Foreign Language Classroom by Joanna Nijakowska Pdf

This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling – developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective of a foreign language teacher. It is intended to serve as a reference book for those involved in foreign language teaching, including experienced in-service teachers and novice teachers, as well as teacher trainers and trainees. It offers an up-to-date and reader-friendly study of the mechanisms of dyslexia and an overview of the current research on the disorder, in theoretical and practical terms. Its aim is to help teachers tackle one of the many challenges they face in the modern classroom: the organization of an effective foreign language teaching process for students with dyslexia.