Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems

Ludo Verhoeven (Curatore)

Charles Perfetti (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2022

This volume presents the first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia. Bringing together a team of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, it takes a dual focus on the language-specific properties of dyslexia and on its core components across languages and orthographies, to challenge theories on the nature, identification and prevalence of dyslexia, and to reveal new insights. Part I highlights the nature, identification and prevalence of dyslexia across multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Czech and Slovakian, Finnish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese, while Part II takes a cross-linguistic stance on topics such as the nature of dyslexia, the universals that determine relevant precursor measures, competing hypotheses of brain-based deficits, modelling outcomes, etiologies, and intergenerational gene-environment interactions.

• Curatore: Ludo Verhoeven, Charles Perfetti
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 480 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 151 mm
• Peso: 700 gr.
• EAN: 9781108451000

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