The SAGE handbook of dyslexia

• Other Authors: Reid, Gavin, 1950-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2008.
• Subjects: Dyslexia > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; EDUCATION > Communicative Disorders. > Special Education; Dyslexie.; Electronic books.; Aufsatzsammlung.
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"'The SAGE Handbook of Dyslexia' is a comprehensive overview of a complex field. It is a rich, critical assessment of past and present theory and current research, which also looks to the future. The editors have brought together key figures from the international academic world - bot...

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1: Neurological/genetic perspectives. The origin of dyslexia: The asynchrony phenomenon / Zvia Breznitz
• Some special issues concerning the genetics of dyslexia: revisiting multivariate profiles, comorbidities and genetic correlations / Jeffrey W. Gilger
• The neurobiological basis of dyslexia / John Stein
• Dyslexia and the cerebellum / Angela J. Fawcett and Roderick I. Nicolson
• Familial predictors of dyslexia: Evidence from preschool children with and without familial dyslexia risk / Dennis L. Molfese ... [et al.]
• Early identification and prevention of dyslexia: results from a prospective follow-up study of children at familial risk for dyslexia / Heikki Lyytinen with Jane Erskine ... [et al.]
• pt. 2: Cognitive and learning perspectives. Exploring heterogeneity in developmental dyslexia: a longitudinal investigation / Frank Manis and Caroline E. Bailey
• Rediscovering dyslexia: new approaches for identification classification / Richard K. Wagner
• Learning, cognition and dyslexia / Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
• A review of the evidence on morphological processing in dyslexics and poor readers: a strength or weakness? / S. Héléne Deacon, Rauno Parrila and John R. Kirby.
• pt. 3: Educational influences. Reading intervention research: an integrative framework / William E. Tunmer and Keith T. Greaney
• Assessment of literacy performance based on the componential model of reading / R. Malatesha Joshi and P.G. Aaron
• The definition of learning disabilities: Who is the individual with learning disabilities? / Linda D. Siegel and Orly Lipka
• Students with phonological dyslexia in school-based programs: insights from Tennessee schools / Diane J. Sawyer and Stuart Bernstein
• Individual tutoring for struggling readers: moving research to scale with interventions implemented by paraeducators / Patricia F. Vadasy and Elizabeth A. Sanders
• Dyslexia friendly primary schools: What can we learn from asking the pupils? / Mary Coffield ... [et al.]
• Dyslexia and learning styles: overcoming the barriers to learning / Gavin Reid and Iva Strnadova
• Dyslexia and inclusion in the secondary school- cross curricular perspectives / Moira Thomson
• Dyslexia and self-concept: a review of past research with implications for future action / Robert Burden
• Role of parents / Gavin Reid, Shannon Green and Corey Zylstra
• pt. 4: Dyslexia and different languages. Dyslexia in different orthographies: variability in transparency / John Everatt and Gad Elbeheri
• Dyslexia and foreign language learning / Michael Dal
• pt. 5: Beyond school. Adults with learning disabilities and self-disclosure in higher education and beyond / Lynda A. Price and Paul J. Gerber
• Dyslexia: workplace issues / Gavin Reid, Fil Came and Lynda A. Price.