The Study of Dyslexia

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In long-ago 1999, the Dyslexia Institute and Plenum Press conceived a plan for two books which would gather the best of current knowledge and practice in dyslexia studies. This would benefit those—but not only those—many individuals who train with us, acquiring a postgraduate certificate and diploma with our higher education partner, the University of York. Since then, the century changed, the hinge of history creaked and Plenum was taken over by Kluwer Academic Publishers, but the first of the pair, Dyslexia in Practice, emerged quickly and on schedule (Townend and Turner, 2000). Written by staff and close associates of the Institute, its chapters were produced under close scrutiny and with the expedition of a command economy. To our delight, the book has seen a success which went beyond the dreams of its editors: it has been adopted by other courses similar to our own and is widely referred to. The same was never likely to be true of The Study of Dyslexia, which was envisaged as a theoretical companion volume written by authors and researchers of international repute. Nearly five years after the idea first took shape, this second volume now arrives to complete the enterprise, but it has been a very different project. Visual Factors in Dyslexia....Pages 1-22 Genetic and Environmental Causes of Reading Disabilities: Results from the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center....Pages 23-33 The Neurobiology of Dyslexia....Pages 35-75 The Science of Dyslexia: A Review of Contemporary Approaches....Pages 77-90 Phonological Skills, Learning to Read, and Dyslexia....Pages 91-129 Verbal Memory in the Learning of Literacy....Pages 131-156 Accelerating Word Reading, Spelling, and Comprehension Skills with Synthetic Phonics....Pages 157-173 Review of Research Evidence on Effective Intervention....Pages 175-195 An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Psychological Testing....Pages 197-247 Dyslexia and Self-Esteem....Pages 249-279