Dyslexia in Different LanguagesISBN: 978-1-86156-153-4
Paperback
320 pages
December 2002
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This book presents current research on dyslexia in alnguages other
than English. It is increasingly evident that it is essential to
define dyslexia in terms of the language of instruction because
learning to read cannot be separated from the linguistic parameters
of that language. Differences in the orthographic, phonological,
morphemic and inflectional structure of a language influence the
degree of difficulty encountered by children when learning to read.
Consequently, authors describe the linguistic properties of their
languages and discuss the problems encountered by dyslexics in that
language and the dyslexics' underlying cognitive deficits.
The objective of this book is to explore a variety of languages and to identify both the language specific characteristics of reading and spelling problems in each language and the core deficits that are common to all dyslexics regardless of the language of instruction.