Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems

The first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia.

Ludo Verhoeven (Edited by), Charles Perfetti (Edited by), Kenneth Pugh (Edited by)

9781108451000, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 June 2022

480 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.7 kg

This volume presents the first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia. Bringing together a team of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, it takes a dual focus on the language-specific properties of dyslexia and on its core components across languages and orthographies, to challenge theories on the nature, identification and prevalence of dyslexia, and to reveal new insights. Part I highlights the nature, identification and prevalence of dyslexia across multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Czech and Slovakian, Finnish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese, while Part II takes a cross-linguistic stance on topics such as the nature of dyslexia, the universals that determine relevant precursor measures, competing hypotheses of brain-based deficits, modelling outcomes, etiologies, and intergenerational gene-environment interactions.

Introduction
1. Developmental dyslexia: a cross-linguistic perspective Ludo Verhoeven, Charles Perfetti and Kenneth Pugh
Part I. Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems: 2. Developmental dyslexia in English Charles Perfetti and Lindsay Harris
3. Developmental dyslexia in French Caroline Sprenger-Charolles
4. Developmental dyslexia in Dutch Ludo Verhoeven
5. Developmental dyslexia in Czech-Slovakian Markéta Caravolas, Marína Mikulajová and Anna Kuchaská
6. Developmental dyslexia in Finnish Heikki Lyytinen, Ulla Richardson and Mikko Aro
7. Developmental dyslexia in Russian Marina Zhukova and Elena Grigorenko
8. Developmental dyslexia in Hebrew David Share, Michal Shany and Orly Lipka
9. Developmental dyslexia in Japanese Teiko Wydell
10. Developmental dyslexia in Chinese Min Xu, Li Hai Tan and Charles Perfetti
Part II. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Developmental Dyslexia: 11. Behavioral precursors of developmental dyslexia Karin Landerl
12. Neural predictors of developmental dyslexia Elizabeth Norton, John Gabrieli and Nadine Gaab
13. Neurocognitive markers of developmental dyslexia Lan Shuai, Stephen Frost, Nicole Landi, Einar Mencl and Kenneth Pugh
14. Role of visual attention in developmental dyslexia Andrea Facoetti, Sandro Franceschini and Simone Gori
15. Morphological and semantic processing in developmental dyslexia S. Hélène Deacon, Xiuli Tong and Catherine Mimeau
16. Modeling the variability of developmental dyslexia Johannes C. Ziegler, Conrad Perry and Marco Zorzi
17. Modeling developmental dyslexia across languages and writing systems Jason Zevin
18. Etiology of developmental dyslexia Richard K. Olson, Janice M. Keenan, Brian Byrne and Stefan Samuelsson
19. Intergenerational transmission in developmental dyslexia Fumiko Hoeft and Cheng Wang
Epilogue
20. Developmental dyslexia across languages and writing systems: the big picture Charles Perfetti, Kenneth Pugh and Ludo Verhoeven.

Subject Areas: Language acquisition [CFDC], Linguistics [CF]