In transparent orthographies like German, isolated learning disabilities in either reading or
spelling are common and occur as often as a combined reading and spelling disability …

The second half of the chapter introduces the Baddeley and Hitch (1974) working memory
model and argues that although this model has been in existence for over 30 years, it has …

For the past several years, the study of memory processes in children with reading
disabilities has been a very popular area of inquiry. The goal of most recent research has …

In recent years, limitations of the discrepancy definition of specific reading difficulties have
led researchers to propose that dyslexia is best described as a core phonological deficit …

Objective. The outcome in adolescence of children diagnosed as dyslexic during the early
years of school was examined in children prospectively identified in childhood and …

A great deal of inconsistency and controversy exist in the research on reading and reading
disabilities. Therefore, any discussion of reading and reading disabilities must start with a …

Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate significant language
impairments despite normal-range hearing and nonverbal IQ. Many of these children also …

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether changes in working memory (WM) of
children with reading disabilities (RD) were related to a domain-specific or a domain …

Developmental dyslexia (hereafter DD) is widely recognized as etiologically and functionally
heterogeneous groups of learning disabilities, whose common denominator is …

Background It is well established that phonological awareness, print knowledge and rapid
naming predict later reading difficulties. However, additional auditory, visual and motor …