Dyslexia: Advances in Theory and Practice

Ingvar Lundberg is a professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Books that he has co-authored together with Torleiv Høien have been standard textbooks throughout the Nordic countries, and their articles have appeared in leading international journals.

Editors’ Introduction.- Editors’ Introduction.- I: Theoretical Perspectives.- Towards a Sharper Definition of Dyslexia.- Theories of Deficits in Dyslexia.- A Connectionist Perspective of Reading and its Difficulties.- Cognitive Architecture of Early Reading.- Automaticity, Automatization and Dyslexia.- Awareness and Automaticity in Reading.- II: The Impact of Orthography.- Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Reading Development and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies.- What Can We Learn from Dyslexia in Chinese?.- III: Biological Perspectives.- Reasearch on Reading Disabilities in the Colorado Learning Disability Research Center.- Exclusion of Linkage to 1p, 6p and Chromosome 15 in a Large Norwegian Family with Dyslexia.- Brain Markers of Dyslexia: Planum Temporale Asymmetry and Dichotic Listening to CV-Syllables.- Developmental Dyslexia: The Role of the Cerebellum.- IV: Diagnostics and Treatment.- Early Reading Problems: A Follow up 20 Years Later.- A Diagnostic Procedure Based on Reading Component Model.- Component Model-Based Remedial Treatment of Reading Disabilities.- Do Pre-School Data Predict Resistance to Treatment in Phonological Awareness, Decoding and Spelling?.- First Steps: A Program of Early Intervention.- Author Index.