Research Catalog

Title

International book of dyslexia : a cross-language comparison and practice guide / edited by Ian Smythe, John Everatt and Robin Salter.

Publication

New York : Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smythe, Ian
• Everatt, John
• Salter, Robin

Description

xiv, 210 p.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Education
• Child
• Dyslexia
• Dyslexic children > Education
• Cross-Cultural Comparison

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Dyslexia: A cross-linguistic framework / Ian Smythe and John Everatt -- 2. Dyslexia in Arabic / Salim Abu-Rabia -- 3. Dyslexia in Chinese / Wengang Yin and Brendan Weekes -- 4. Research on Dyslexia in Danish / Dorthe Haven and Birgit Dilling Jandorf -- 5. Developmental Dyslexia in the Dutch Language / Pieter Reitsma -- 6. Developmental Dyslexia in English / Usha Goswami -- 7. Dyslexia in Farsi / Kaveh Farrokh -- 8. Dyslexia in Highly Orthographically Regular Finnish / Heikki Lyytinen, Mikko Aro and Leena Holopainen -- 9. Dyslexia Research in German-Speaking Countries / Gerd Schulte-Korne -- 10. Reading, Spelling and Dyslexia in Greek: Research on the role of linguistic and cognitive skills / Costas D. Porpodas -- 11. Developmental Dyslexia in the Hebrew Language / David L. Share and Mark Leikin -- 12. Research on Dyslexia in Hungarian / Eva Gyarmathy -- 13. Dyslexia in Italian / Patrizio Tressoldi -- 14. Learning to Read in Japanese: Word to sentence reading / Jun Yamada -- 15. Dyslexia in Polish: Specific problems of dyslexic children in Poland / Marta Bogdanowicz -- 16. Research on the Role of Phonology, Orthography and Cognitive Skills in Reading, Spelling and Dyslexia in Brazilian Portuguese / Fernando C. Capovilla and Alessandra G. S. Capovilla -- 17. Problems of Dyslexia in Russian / Olga Inshakova -- 18. Dyslexia in Spanish / Almudena Gimenez de la Pena -- 19. Dyslexia in Swedish / Ingvar Lundberg -- 20. Issues in the Assessment of Reading Disability in Second Language Children / Esther Geva and Lesly Wade-Woolley.

ISBN

• 0471498416
• 0471496464 (PBK.)

OCLC

• ocm52737545
• SCSB-4860440

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries