146 Pages
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Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1983, recent advances in cognitive psychology had revealed that reading and spelling disabilities may be due to deficits in basic cognitive processes. Dr Jorm looks at each type of disability in detail, in relation to normality as well as intellectual disability (formerly called retardation), and finds that the new research provides a useful approach to seemingly... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Varieties of Reading and Spelling Disability 2. Specific Reading Retardation: The Social Context 3. Specific Reading Retardation: The Nature of the Reading Deficit 4. Specific Reading Retardation: The Nature of the Cognitive Deficit 5. Specific Reading Retardation: Brain Development 6. Reading Comprehension Disabilities 7. Spelling Disabilities 8. Remediation, Prediction and Prevention. References. Index.
Biography
A.F. Jorm
