Reading and dyslexia in different orthographies

ISBN: 9781841697123 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1841697125 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print xviii, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, 2010.

Brunswick, Nicola, 1970- (Added Author). McDougall, Siné, 1958- (Added Author). De Mornay Davies, Paul, 1967- (Added Author).

Summary: This book presents cross-language comparisons of reading development and developmental dyslexia in alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages. It begins by looking at development of language skills in monolingual speakers and bilingual children learning to read in languages with different spelling-sound rules. The next section covers developmental dyslexia in monolingual and bilingual speakers, and the impact of differences in orthography on symptoms. The final section looks at how the brain deals with different languages and writing systems.