Textbook
Reading Development and DifficultiesISBN: 978-1-4051-5155-9
Paperback
272 pages
June 2010, ©2010
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This accessible text brings together research on word reading and
comprehension development, which are often treated separately, and
provides a comprehensive and detailed introductory text to reading
development and difficulties.
Key features include:
- An introduction to the important issues in reading research and
the skills involved in reading words and understanding text, from
the point of view of both a beginner and a skilled reader
- A consideration of the similarities and differences between
written and spoken language, and the advantages and disadvantages
of different methodological approaches
- An examination of how failures in reading comprehension skills
can create difficulties and disorders
- A consideration of the implications of this research for the teaching of reading and the diagnosis and treatment of reading difficulties
This text will be useful to many different groups of readers, not only researchers and students in psychology but also those who work in more applied settings, such as students in education and speech and language therapy, who may have a limited background knowledge of the psychology of reading.