Dyslexia and Hyperlexia

Diagnosis and Management of Developmental Reading Disabilities
1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-3155-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 324 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: Neuropsychology and Cognition

Even though I had been studying reading problems in children for a number of years as a means of understanding cognitive processes, I became deeply committed to the study of developmental dyslexia after my encounter with S. H., a dyslexic college student. Until then, dyslexia to me remained an interesting phenomenon but somewhat removed from the mainstream of my research interests. The facts that, in spite of his superior IQ, S. H. could read no better than a child in the fifth grade and misspelled even common words such as was and here, however, took me by surprise and made me appreciate the intriguing and challenging nature of developmental dyslexia. This led to a series of studies of college students with reading disability, a group that is relatively unexplored. The general plan of these investigations was to study a small number of disabled readers at any given time, rather intensively. Even though this approach limits the generalizability of the research findings, it lays bare some of the most interesting facts about dyslexia which are obscured in large-scale statistical studies. These studies have now extended well over a decade and are still continuing. As soon as these studies were started, it became obvious that not all reading-disabled college students are alike and that disabled readers could be classified into three broad categories: those with poor decod­ ing skill, those with poor comprehension ability, and those with a combination of these two deficits.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aaron, P. G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. READING DISABILITIES: THE PUZZLE AND THE HISTORY.- 1. Introducing the Puzzle.- 2. Developmental Dyslexia: History of Research.- 3. The Current Scene: An Orchestrated Effort.- 4. Hyperlexia: History of Research.- 5. General Conclusions.- 2. THE READING PROCESS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Visual Encoding Stage.- 3. The Word-Recognition Stage.- 4. Reading Comprehension Beyond the Word Level.- 5 Components of Reading: Decoding and Comprehension.- Note.- 3. ETIOLOGIES OF DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA AND HYPERLEXIA.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Developmental Dyslexia.- 3. Hyperlexia.- Notes.- 4. DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA AND HYPERLEXIA: DELINEATION OF THE DISORDERS.- 1. Developmental Dyslexia.- 2. Hyperlexia.- 3. A Model of Reading and Reading Disabilities.- 5. THE “SYNDROMES” OF DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA AND HYPERLEXIA.- 1. The Syndrome of Developmental Dyslexia.- 2. The Syndrome of Hyperlexia.- Note.- 6. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF READING DISABILITIES.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Rationale of the Diagnostic Procedure.- 3. Diagnostic Procedure: Grades 4 and Above.- 4. Diagnostic Procedure: Grades 1 and 2.- 5. Identification of the Hyperlexic Child.- 7. TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF READING DISABILITIES.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Treatment of Reading Disabilities.- 3. Management of Reading Disabilities.- Note.- REFERENCES.- APPENDIX I.- APPENDIX II.- AUTHOR INDEX.