The self-teaching hypothesis proposes that phonological recoding functions as a self-
teaching mechanism enabling the learner to independently acquire an autonomous …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Abstract The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC; Kaufman & Kaufman, 1983)
assesses problem-solving skills in a manner not related to academic achievement …

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit
their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy …

The progress in understanding of acquired dyslexia was due not to such collections of
empirical data, but rather to the fruitful application of detailed information-processing models …

Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI) were for many years
treated as distinct disorders but are now often regarded as different manifestations of the …

PHONOLOGICAL processing skills have been shown to account for some, but not all, of the
variance in the word recognition ability of both children and adults. In two studies with adult …

The last 25 years have seen tremendous advances in the study of psychological processes
in reading. Our growing body of knowledge on the reading process and reading acquisition …

This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language
processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled …

A coherent conception of dyslexia has been difficult to arrive at because research findings
have continually created logical paradoxes for the psychometric definition of reading …