Naming-Speed Processes, Timing, and Reading

• Maryanne Wolf

  Center for Reading and Language Research, Miller Hall, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155

• Patricia Greig Bowers

  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Kathleen Biddle

  Center for Reading and Language Research

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• A Conceptual Review

Abstract

This article integrates the findings in the special issue with a comprehensive review of the evidence for seven central questions about the role of naming-speed deficits in developmental reading disabilities. Cross-sectional, longitudinal, and cross-linguistic research on naming-speed processes, timing processes, and reading is presented. An evolving model of visual naming illustrates areas of difference and areas of overlap between naming speed and phonology in their underlying requirements. Work in the cognitive neurosciences is used to explore two nonexclusive hypotheses about the putative links between naming speed and reading processes and about the sources of disruption that may cause subtypes of reading disabilities predicted by the double-deficit hypothesis. Finally, the implications of the work in this special issue for diagnosis and intervention are elaborated.

Journal

• Journal of Learning Disabilities

  Journal of Learning Disabilities 33 (4), 387-407, 2000-07

  SAGE Publications

Keywords

• General Health Professions
• Education
• Health (social science)

Details

• CRID: 1362825894883216256
• NII Article ID: 30031365046
• DOI: 10.1177/002221940003300409
• ISSN: 15384780
• ISSN: 00222194
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002221940003300409
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