Cross-linguistic study of acquired reading disorders : implications for reading models, disorders, acquisition, and teaching

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    • Karanth, Prathibha

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Cross-linguistic study of acquired reading disorders : implications for reading models, disorders, acquisition, and teaching

Prathibha Karanth

(Neuropsychology and cognition, v. 24)

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-163) and index

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Description

This volume focuses on cross-linguistic studies of the acquired disorders of reading and what they can tell us about the models of reading and the human brain. The author has compiled a source-book on cross-linguistic studies of reading disorders with data from the alphasyllabaries of India, in addition to showing the implications of these findings on the understanding of reading, its acquisition, and the developmental and acquired reading disorders and their management.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Neuropsychological Cognitive and Computational Models of Reading. 3. The Alphasyllabaries of India-Kannada as Exemplar. 4. Pure Alexia. 5. Surface Dyslexia. 6. Deep Dyslexia. 7. The Other Dyslexias. 8. Cross-Linguistic Studies of Skilled Reading and Reading Acquisition. 9. Neuropsychological Models of Reading and the Brain - Revisited. 10. Cross-Linguistic Studies of Reading and Reading Disorders - Implications. References. Author Index.

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