This longitudinal study examined early cognitive risk and protective factors for Grade 2
reading disability (RD). We first examined the reading outcome of 198 children in four …

In this longitudinal investigation, the development of word-retrieval speed and its
relationship to reading was studied in 72 average and 11 severely impaired readers in the …

Background: Converging evidence indicates a functional disruption in the neural systems for
reading in adults with dyslexia. We examined brain activation patterns in dyslexic and …

Developmental dyslexia is characterized by severe reading and spelling difficulties that are
persistent and resistant to the usual didactic measures and remedial efforts. It is well …

The present study describes two Frenchteenagers with developmental reading andwriting
impairments whose performance wascompared to that of chronological age andreading age …

The cognitive and neuropsychological approaches to reading disability are compared and
contrasted, with attention given to the strengths and weaknesses of each …

This chapter is concerned with the relationship between phonological skills and specific
reading difficulties or dyslexia. The highly specific processing difficulties shown by dyslexic …

Dyslexia has recently been defined as a developmental language disorder (Catts, 1989a;
Kamhi & Catts, 1989). In this article, the language basis of dyslexia and the current research …

There is a growing consensus that developmental dyslexia is associated with a
phonological-core deficit. One symptom of this phonological deficit is a subtle speech …

Background Reading comprehension draws on both decoding and linguistic
comprehension, and poor reading comprehension can be the consequence of a deficit in …